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Quotes About Humanity

We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God.
~ John Piper
What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.
~ Lew Wallace
Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I had such an intense relationship to every person. I still see people on the street and we lock eyes, and say "Oh my god!" and we just kiss and stay like that and sometimes cry.
~ Marina Abramovic
The bible says that all people, not just believers, possess part of the image of God; that is why murder and abortion are wrong.
~ Rick Warren
What I had thought of before as God, I met today in a human being.
~ Rumi
To not believe in God is to know that it falls to us to make the world a better place.
~ Sam Harris
But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea.
~ Jim Butcher, Grave Peril
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
~ James Russell Lowell
God has created us all humanHe is kind & just to all. Why should we be unkind & unjust to each other?
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
The universe is large and we are tiny, without the need for further religious superstructure. One can have so-called spiritual moments without belief in the spirit.
~ Alain de Botton
Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for all of us.
~ Alain de Botton
... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God.
~ Albert Camus
We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
~ Alice Hoffman
If God cares about our puny species, then disasters prove that he is not all-powerful; and if he is all-powerful, then clearly he doesn't give a damn.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
Sharing is the answer for humanity. When we share we recognize that God is our brother, and unless we have that trust created by sharing, then nothing can be done.
~ Benjamin Creme
I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe in that He ought to be whipped from pilar to post and back again for His shameful actions toward Humanity.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.
~ Bill Vaughan
If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.
~ Billy Graham
At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.
~ Blaise Pascal
Dear little head, that lies in calm content Within the gracious hollow that God made In every human shoulder, where He meant Some tired head for comfort should be laid.
~ Celia Thaxter
The skirts of the gods Drag in our mud. We feel the touch And take it to be a kiss.
~ Christopher Fry
I don't believe in God, but the thing I do believe in is that we're all connected.
~ Guy Pearce
It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed.
~ Thomas Carlyle