Quotes About Humanity

We become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves.

We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ.

War is not to be waged in the name of God.

For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands... and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.

We must be instruments of God's compassion to those who are suffering.

God is the collective ego of the world

In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.

God, our world is so complicated.

I think Jesus was a bit more of a fun guy. I'd like to play Him like maybe some days He doesn't fancy it, being God. Some days He's miracled-out and just wants to go have a smoke.

If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it?

Because it's our duty to God to protect the rest of humanity from evil creatures of the night.

We were put on this Earth as creatures of God to have dominion over the Earth, to use it wisely and steward it wisely, but for our benefit not for the Earth's benefit.

Everybody is God. Everybody is the devil. And if you don't realize you have both parts, that's what really causes problems.

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

If there is a God, there should be no slaves.

We may scavenge the dross of the nation, we may shudder past bloody sod, But we thrill to the new revelation that we are parts of God.

Human beings are special, of higher dignity and worth than other animals, because they're created in God's own image and likeness. It's actually true humanism.

Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable.

I'm convinced, more than ever, that man finds liberation only when he binds himself to God and commits himself to his fellow man.

Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good and ill.

Develop the feeling of brotherhood of man and fatherhood of God.

God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.

God can use anything, and anyone - even a king or a president, even a tax collector or a businessman, a priest or a prostitute, a Republican or a Democrat.

I do believe in Jesus as wholly God and wholly human, and I believe the human part was human.