Quotes About Humanity

Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.

Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride at what you have done, one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth.

I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer.

We offer up prayers to God only because we have made Him after our own image. We treat Him like a Pasha or a Sultan who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

May your GodExtend to youThe same LoveAnd CompassionYou have ProvidedTo Others.

Prayer reaches out in love to a dying world and says "I care."

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future.

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.

Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to understand the universe in which they live.

I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

Human beings are essentially here for two purposes - to learn about and express love, and to create. We learn about love in all our relationships.

All real living is meeting.

I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.