Quotes About Humanity

Being human, we should bear all we can.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink.

The sun, moon and stars would have disappeared long ago had they been within the reach of predatory human hands.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The worst of faces still is human.

We all choke, and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell. We all leak oil.

Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. . . . Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Stretch out your hand! Let no human soul wait for a benediction.

People are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.

It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive.

Tis the human touch in the world that counts-the touch of your hand and mine-Which means far more to the sinking heart than shelter or bread or wine For shelter is gone when the night is o'er, and bread lasts only a day But the touch of the hand and the sound of the voice Live on in the soul always.

We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.

It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.

Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen.

A picket frozen on duty - A mother starved for her brood - Socrates drinking the hemlock, And Jesus on the rood; And millions who, humble and nameless, The straight, hard pathway trod - Some call it Consecration, And others call it God.

Everyone is in a small way the image of God.

One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.

In the faces of men and women I see God and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, and I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoever I go others will punctually come for ever and ever.

The glory of God is in man fully alive.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

The world is more exacting than God himself.

God is what man finds that is divine in himself. God is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.