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Quotes About Humanity

I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of the loneliest wino on the planet.
~ Dick Gregory
In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else
~ Douglas Wilson
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
~ George Eliot
How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.
~ John Haggai
I am a great Sinner and God is a great Savior
~ John Newton
This world is bad enough maybe; We do not comprehend it; But in one fact can all agree God won't, and we can't mend it.
~ Arthur Hugh Clough
God has a sense of humor. If you don't believe me, tomorrow go to wal-mart and just look at people.
~ Carlos Mencia
Whose hands are God's hands, but our hands?
~ Therese of Lisieux
Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.
~ Tullian Tchividjian
I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!
~ Elie Wiesel
The children of God have more in common then they have differences.
~ Henry B. Eyring
This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image.
~ James Weldon Johnson
We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
~ Joseph Joubert
God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
If we are in a supermarket when someone drops a bag of groceries on the floor and we don't help that person pick things up, what difference does it make how deeply we know we're a being of God?.
~ Lee Lozowick
There is no gospel without the offence. This is God's wisdom. It never seems sensible to us in our flesh.
~ Mark Dever
God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.
~ Mark Twain
God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.
~ Mary Chapin Carpenter
God has committed himself, ever since creation, to working through his creatures--in particular, through his image-bearing human beings--but they have all let Him down.
~ N. T. Wright
I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
~ Ralph Abernathy
The Son of God came to dwell in human flesh for us in order that He might come to dwell in us by His Spirit.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
Go to the poor there you will find God.
~ St. Vincent