Quotes About Humanity

Are we using digital computers to sequence, store, and better replicate our own genetic code, thereby optimizing human beings, or are digital computers optimizing our genetic code—and our way of thinking—so that we can better assist in replicating them?

Humans were still in the loop but no longer in control.

A closer examination of the passages in Romans 5 and 2 Corinthians 5 leads to the inescapable conclusion that reconciliation is not primarily a change in humanity's attitude toward God; it is, like justification, an objective event that is accomplished by God for humanity's salvation.

The renewal of the new person6 does not designate gradual renewal of the character, but that the new humanity, already existing in Christ, is progressively actualized in the Christian church.

The text does not say that he emptied himself of the morph? theou or of equality with God. From other references we know that Paul regards Jesus incarnate as the embodiment of deity (Col. 1:19). All that the text states is that "he emptied himself by taking something else to himself, namely, the manner of being, the nature or form of a servant or slave."47 By becoming human, by entering on a path of humiliation that led to death, the divine Son of God emptied himself.

Biblical theology is theology: it is primarily a story about God and his concern for human beings. It exists only because of the divine initiative realizing itself in a series of divine acts whose objective is human redemption. Biblical theology therefore is not exclusively, or even primarily, a system of abstract theological truths. It is basically the description and interpretation of the divine activity within the scene of human history that seeks humanity's redemption.

The "things that are above" represent the realm of God that has already invaded human history in the person and mission of Jesus and brought to human beings43 the new realm of life.

The whole history of New Testament thought is to be understood as the invasion of God's world into the realm of history to secure humanity's redemption.

The Hebrew view of humanity is very different from the Greek view. There is no trace of dualism. The Hebrew word for body (gewiyyâ) occurs only fourteen times in the Old Testament5 and never stands in contrast to the soul (neeš).

Soul (neeš) is not a higher part of humanity standing over against the body but designates the vitality or life principle in a person. God breathed into Adam's nostrils the breath of life, and he became a living neeš (Gen. 2:7).

The difference between neeš and rû(a)? in humankind is that neeš designates a person in relation to other people as one living the common life of humans, while rû(a)? is the individual in her or his relation to God.9 However, neither neeš nor rû(a)? is conceived of as a part of a person capable of surviving the death of b???r. They both designate the human being as a whole viewed from different perspectives.

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

These fellow mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

A disquieting era of genetic manipulation is coming, one that may revolutionize human capacities, and notions of health. If we treat moral scruples impatiently, as inherently retrograde in a scientifically advancing civilization, we will not be in moral trim when, soon, our very humanity depends on our being in trim.

Frank Fukuyama did what had hitherto seemed almost impossible: he made Washington think. His subject was, and in this far more sweeping book is, the place of America, and the American idea, in the stream of history. His conclusion is at once exhilarating and sobering. We have won the struggle for the heart of humanity. However, that will not necessarily be good for humanity's soul.

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

It is mankind that has survived, not any one man. The fitness includes and depends on social organization, cooperation.

For example, if a starving man pulls a gun on you and you get the upper hand, you will likely let him go because you will feel sorry for him. That's the kind of person you are." "And what kind of person are you?" His face was hard. "The kind who shoots first.

The world needs more good people in it, and my son will be a good person.

Being human in our world is synonymous with being included into the framework of society.

Nonhumanity is a dangerous label. If someone is nonhuman, they have no rights, Andrea. No protection.

We, the human beings, are meant to live life to its fullest. We are meant to experience it all—sadness, disappointment, rage, kindness, joy, love. We are meant to test ourselves. It is painful and frightening, but this is what it means to be alive.