Quotes About Humanity

Here's the bottom line: you and I struggle with the faithfulness of God, not because he has been unfaithful, but because we have.

You were put here for the purpose of the glory of another. This is not a lifestyle option; it is in the very nature of your humanity. To live for yourself is to rob yourself of your own humanity. It is only in living for Christ that we actually begin to become what we were meant to be.

You see, culture isn't the problem, people are.

This desire for transcendence is in all of us because God placed it there. He constructed us to live for more than ourselves.

When we say that God designed human beings to be interpreters, we are getting to the heart of why human beings do what they do. Our thinking conditions our emotions, our sense of identity, our view of others, our agenda for the solution of our problems, and our willingness to receive counsel from others. That is why we need a framework for generating valid interpretations that help us respond to life appropriately. Only the words of the Creator can give us that framework.

If a system could give us what we need, Jesus would never have come.

The entire hope of fallen humanity rests on this one thing—that there is a Savior who is eternally steadfast in redeeming, forgiving, reconciling, transforming, and delivering love. Without this, the Bible is a book of interesting stories and helpful principles, but it is devoid of any power to fix what sin has broken.

God is rescuing fallen humanity, transporting them into his kingdom, and progressively shaping them into his likeness—and he wants you to be a part of it.

Envy is universal because sin is.

Yet this grand and glorious God, for the purpose of redemption, becomes a man. The untraversable line between Creator and creature is crossed. The Word becomes flesh. The feet of God touch earth! The voice of God is heard on earth! The Lord comes as the Second Adam, the Word of Life, the Final Priest, and the Sacrificial Lamb. He satisfies God's requirements, he atones for God's anger, and he defeats death.

suffering is not an unusual, surprising experience; it's the experience of everyone who lives in this dramatically broken world.

The person next to you doesn't need the gospel more than you do; he just needs it differently than you do. All people sin and fall short.

It is a fundamental denial of your humanity to narrow the size of your life to the size of your own existence, because you were created to be an "above and more" being. You were made to be transcendent.

Every human being is in need of a king. All human beings need the rescue, forgiveness, justice, mercy, refuge, and protection that they are unable to give themselves.

To every human being, sin is the ultimate undefeatable enemy. It captures and controls us all, and there is nothing we can do. It is either the height of arrogance or the depth of delusion to think that you are okay. None of us is okay apart from the invasion of grace that is the core purpose for the coming of Jesus.

If true humanity is bound up in community with God and godly community with others, I will never experience it when all my eyes ever see is my own need.

God's purpose in controlling the details of your life (the exact length of it and the locations where you live) is so that at any moment in the middle of your unfolding story, you can reach out and touch him, because his rule makes him very near to every one of us. What each of us really needs in our finite and faltering humanness is not so much the success of our plans, but God himself.

Just like Adam, when we blame people and situations for our problems, below the surface we are also making accusations against God.

Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.

Jack asked himself: Would he have wanted to live out his life as a placid, contented, lobotomized Ferdinand the Bull? No. Then, what right did he have to inflict such a fate on anybody?

Vol minachting keek hij naar al die waterhoofden waarin de slogans en gemeenplaatsen van een ten dode opgeschreven Systeem als kikkerdril samenklonterden en ronddreven. Naar die voortbrengers niet van de denkende, fijngevoelige, gecultiveerde, vrijheidslievende en schoonheidminnende mens, maar de van alle soorten banaalste en vulgairste: de Koopkrachtige Mens, de modale zaterdagmiddagklant van de Supermarkt. Wie niet kocht, bestond niet.

Ci sono momenti in cui penso che gli uomini nascano con il bisogno di combattere contro il male e che quando non riescono a trovare nulla di malavagio con cui lottare, se lo creino da soli. Istvan DiVega - Il ritorno del principe.

within all the religions there is a concern to improve the lot of human beings in this world, which means improving this world. Whatever "salvation" or "enlightenment" or moksha may mean for the interior life of the soul or for life after death, it also is meant to make a difference in life on this earth.

I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.