Quotes About Humanity

The kingdom of suffering is a democracy, and we all stand in it or alongside it with nothing but our naked humanity.

G. K. Chesterton once wrote, "All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

Throughout the Bible, in fact, God shows a marked preference for "real" people over "good" people.

Ya era gran cosa que el hombre hubiera sido hecho antes como Dios, pero que Dios se hiciera como el hombre, fue mucho más. —John Donne, Holy Sonnet 15 [Soneto Santo 15]

Suffering offers a general message of warning to all humanity that something is wrong with this planet, and that we need radical outside intervention

The world starves for grace.

Don't the Bible say we must love everybody?" "O, the Bible! To be sure, it says a great many things; but, then, nobody ever thinks of doing them." HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

Gordon MacDonald said, the world can do anything the church can do except one thing: it cannot show grace.

6The LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. 7So the LORD said, "I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them." 8But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

who are we to sit in judgment of God's moral government of the universe?

Modern humanity does not perceive the world as worth God dying for. We Christians must demonstrate it.

As Dorothy Day put it, "I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.

The church of my own childhood, as well as that of my present and my future, comprises deeply flawed human beings struggling toward an unattainable ideal.

Ungrace plays like the background static of life for families, nations, and institutions. It is, sadly, our natural human state.

Jesus was able to love men because he loved them right through the layer of mud.

We're all bastards but God loves us anyway.

the issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree.

Not even God, with all his power, can force a human being to love.

The One who had the right to destroy the world—and had nearly done so once in Noah's day—chose instead to love the world, at any cost.

Los seres humanos crecemos al luchar, trabajar y extendernos; en cierto sentido, la naturaleza humana tiene más necesidad de problemas que de soluciones.

The free offer of grace extends not just to the undeserving but to those who in fact deserve the opposite: to Ku Klux Klanners as well as civil rights marchers, to P.

si alguna vez me llego a preguntar cuál será la respuesta «espiritual" adecuada al dolor y el sufrimiento, puedo observar cómo reaccionó Jesús ante sus propios sufrimientos: con temor y temblor, con gritos y lágrimas.

God, help me to see others not as my enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.

Jesús de los Evangelios, un puente entre los seres humanos comunes y corrientes y el Dios perfecto.