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Quotes About Humanity

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
God may have mercy, but we won't.
~ John McCain
Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.
~ John Osborne
Why did God create mankind? Because God likes stories.
~ Jonathan Sacks
There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.
~ Joseph Campbell
A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
The mighty have such simple weaknesses. I like to think it's God's way of keeping things fair.
~ Julie James
The Elephant Man would never have gotten up and gone, 'Oh, God. Look at me hair today.'
~ Karl Pilkington
I would live in a world of Christ-like humans, but not one full of Christians, may God forgive me.
~ Kate Horsley
Expect of Man God, and he will appear to be a beast. Expect of Man a beast, and he will appear to be God.
~ Kedar Joshi
The first condition of human goodness is something to love the second something to revere.
~ George Eliot
Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.
~ Oprah Winfrey
All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.
~ Charles Spurgeon
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly
~ Paul Valery
Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle
~ Werner Herzog
Man invents nothing God did not create first.
~ Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper
Do you ever feel like we are the universe's date to a pig party? Love, The Human Race
~ Christy Leigh Stewart
We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
There are no perfect human beings and even those who we pray such as Allah, Buddha, Jesus, Krishna among others, were not perfect.
~ Santosh Kalwar
Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Our crucifixes exhibit the pain, but they veil, perhaps necessarily, the obscenity: but the death of the God-Man was both.
~ Charles Williams
When you judge another, you judge a child of God, and when you condemn another, you condemn your Heavenly Father.
~ Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
Jan is het kotsbeu dat de Kerk al het kwade blijft wijten aan de van van de mens en dat al het lijden mensen dichter bij God brengt.
~ Yves Saerens, De Dwarsligger
The perfect surrender and humiliation were undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.
~ C.S. Lewis