Quotes About Humanity

As image-bearers of God, human beings likewise create in ways that reflect our identity.

I say somewhat facetiously, "I'm so glad I'm not God." Can you imagine being God and looking at Syria and saying: "These are my children. Look at what they're doing to each other."

Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus is for real. He does not give up on anyone, least of all on me.

God has been incredible in creating us to be persons.

God is not free from human beings but for them.

To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind.

I don't believe in God. So I'm a non-believer in the non-visible. I'm a believer in us; in humans.

Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.

We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.

A voice behind me asked, "Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?" and a voice within me answered: "Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows."

If we are indeed created in God's image, then we, too, must create and then we, too, must rest.

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call.

The greatest thing anyone can give humanity is God consciousness.

Something good made something bad possible (though not inevitable). Humans, however, didn't use their freedom well. Instead of using it to honor God in friendship, they used it to rebel.

American values are not just about America, but they speak to the human dignity, the God-given spark that resides in each and every person across the world.

Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.

No god should ever be invoked to inflict harm.

I think that's why we're always so fascinated with criminal stories because there but for the grace of God it could be us.

This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.

It's our God forsaken right to be loved, loved, loved.

A tension or difficulty can signal the approach of a new grace of God. But it has to be looked at wisely and humanly.

We do not judge, we believe that we are all beautiful intelligent expressions of GOD here on this planet.

What if God was one of us, just a slob like one of us?