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Quotes About Humanity

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.
~ Philip Levine
Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.
~ Edward Everett Hale
God has two families of children on this earth, the once-born and the twice-born.
~ Francis William Newman
If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?
~ Isaac of Nineveh
Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.
~ John Steinbeck
If all are created in the divine image, then our images of God must be fluid and multifarious.
~ Judith Plaskow
There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.
~ Jules de Goncourt
If human beings pretend to be God, then forget about democracy. If they understand that no human being can represent God, then sure.
~ Khaled Abou El Fadl
He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.
~ Chris Bohjalian
If god really wanted people to be free of [wicked thoughts], he should have taken more care to invent a different species.
~ Christopher Hitchens
To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!
~ Anton Chekhov
They serve God well, who serve his creatures.
~ Caroline Norton
By equality, one once understood equality in the very same sense in which the Bible speaks of equality: that we are all equal, inasmuch as we are created in the image of God.
~ Erich Fromm
Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Honor the image of God. Human beings are not accidents, but creations.
~ Timothy Keller
God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these He works.
~ Teresa of Avila
I'm not afraid to have a character say, 'I am a Christian,' or, 'I believe in God,' because I think they represent real people on this Earth.
~ Tyler Perry
We're all God's children.
~ Dolly Parton
Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Humanity starts at the level of the human consciousness and makes its deliberate way to the summit, which is God Consciousness.
~ Harold Klemp
God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess.
~ Jack Nicholson
God damn America for treating her citizens as less than human!
~ Jeremiah Wright