Quotes About Humanity

Feelings one "has"; love occurs. Feelings dwell in man, but man dwells in his love.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other…. Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.

When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing among things nor does he consist of things. He is no longer He or She, a dot in the world grid of space and time, nor a condition to be experienced and described, a loose bundle of named qualities. Neighborless and seamless, he is Thou and fills the firmament. Not as if there were nothing but he; but everything else lives in his light.

All actual life is encounter.

Too many engineers are wrapped up in what they call technology and the gadgets, the hardware, and they forget that the whole purpose of technology is to make peoples' lives better. People forget that, and I have to keep reminding them. We are trying to improve the human experience. That's what technology is all about.

Everyone was fallible. - Pg. 423

The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness." .

It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind legs, observing the world through pairs of flexible little lenses, periodically supplying themselves with energy by pushing organic substances through holes in their faces, who see nothing fabulous whatever about themselves.

Out yonder there was this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking. The contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation …. Albert Einstein, Autobiographical Notes

The woman crawled on the earth, took hold of his boot and pleaded for mercy. But the soldier took the boy and hit him with his head against the wall, once, twice, smashed him against the wall.

Man embraces in his makeup all the natural orders; he's a squid, a mollusk, a sucker and a buzzard; sometimes he's a cerebrate.

When freedom from want and freedom from fear are achieved, man's remains will be in rigor mortis.

The tears of the red, yellow, black, brown and white man are all the same.

God's interest in the human race is nowhere better evinced than in obstetrics.

We are all parasites; we humans, the greatest.

We starve the rats, creosote the ticks, swat the flies, step on the cockroaches and poison the scales. Yet when these pests appear in human form we go paralytic.

The only equipment lack in the modern hospital? Somebody to meet you at the entrance with a handshake!

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

When Schrank approached Roosevelt, a quick-thinking bystander deflected the gunman's hand and probably saved the ex-president's life. After the incident, the crowd attempted to lynch Schrank, but Roosevelt calmed the mob. He yelled, "Don't hurt the poor creature!" as police hauled Schrank away.

The science done by the young Einstein will continue as long as our civilization, but for civilization to survive, we'll need the wisdom of the old Einstein -- humane, global and farseeing. And whatever happens in this uniquely crucial century will resonate into the remote future and perhaps far beyond the Earth, far beyond the Earth

God in Christ has taken into Himself the brokenness of the human condition. Hence, human woundedness, brokenness, death itself are transformed from dead ends to doorways into Life. In the divinizing humanity of Christ, bruises become balm.