Quotes About Human

The real trouble is that the pure Word of Jesus has been overlaid with so much human ballast—burdensome rules and regulations, false hopes and consolations—that it has become extremely difficult to make a genuine decision for Christ.

Human love constructs its own image of the other person, of what he is and what he should become. It takes the life of the other person into its own hands. Spiritual love recognizes the true image of the other person which he has received from Jesus Christ; the image that Jesus Christ himself embodied and would stamp upon all men. Therefore

Life is not a thing, an essence, or a concept,[10] but a person—more specifically, a particular and unique person.

One doesn't cling anxiously to life, but neither does one throw it lightly away. One is content with measured time and does not attribute eternity to earthly things. One leaves to death the limited right that it still has. But one expects the new human being and the new world only frombeyond death, from the power that has conquered death.

It is solely the form of Christ that matters, not any form besides Christ's own. The church is the human being who has become human, has been judged, and has been awakened to new life in Christ.

An image needs a living object, and a copy can only be formed from a model. Either man models himself on the god of his own invention, or the true and living God moulds the human form into his image. There must be a complete transformation, a "metamorphosis" (Rom. 12.2; II Cor. 3.18), if man is to be restored to the image of God.

Love alone brings a human being to full awareness of personal existence. For it is in love alone that man finds room enough to be what he is.

But faith, as we pointed out, is not primarily the acceptance of biblical beliefs because they have been revealed outside of and overriding human reason and good sense, and so in that sense are imposed on us without proper understanding.

The human capacity for unhappiness is so enormous that the entire world cannot fill it.

After all, the human machine is an internal combustion engine running on spirit.

She is well prepared, but she doubts herself. That is part of the human condition and she has succumbed more than expected to the program of fear.

What should move us to action is human dignity the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

Those who first acquired language and tried to think the human situation were utterly overwhelmed. They could cope only by imagining that there were greater invisible beings who could and did understand and control both the human psyche and the world. 'I can't make sense of it, but I have to believe that there is a larger perspective within which it all makes sense.

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

The simple exchange of legal tender for goods and services--was there anything more elemental, yet more beautiful? Money. No matter what anyone said, it was the answer to everything. When it came down to it, there was no human interaction that wasn't, at its core, a transaction.

the old "4-4-40" rough standard for human survival: four minutes without air, four days without water, forty days without food.

But there's no wall down there, Keller thinks, smiling. And there never will be. A border is something that divides us but also unites us; there can be no real wall, just as there is no wall that divides the human soul between its best impulses and its worst. Keller knows. He's been on both sides of the border. He takes Mari's hand and together they limp back down the hill.

The problem with the designs of most engineers is that they are too logical. We have to accept human behavior the way it is, not the way we would wish it to be.

We must design for the way people behave, not for how we would wish them to behave.

Human beings in stressful relationships will frequently behave in ways that contradict or even reverse their own most certain expectations.

In the contemplation of nudes, we congratulate ourselves upon the beauty of which human beings are capable. They reassure us about ourselves, about Being. We are a little lower than the angels, true, but notice that we can get along without that suspect radiance, equal parts paint and literature, on which the angels lean so heavily. The human body is, or can be, a sufficiency.

Today only a handful of apes survive— the orangutan and gibbon in Asia, and the chimpanzee, bonobo, and gorilla in Africa— and most of them are hanging in the balance, thanks to human pressures. During the Miocene, however, as many as one hundred ape species flourished throughout the Old World. One of these gave rise to the human lineage.

Like Orrorin, Ard. kadabba has been held up as an early biped. However, the hypothesis that Ard. kadabba traveled on two legs hinges on a single left foot phalanx, or toe bone, that has been consigned to this species. The bone's joint tilts upward like a human's rather than downward like a chimp's— a configuration that enables humans to "toe off" when walking.

Hence our decline of insight as we shift our gaze from human to ant to quark. Our decline of insight should not be mistaken for an insight into decline—a progressive poverty inherent in objective reality. The decline is in our interface, in our perceptions. But we externalize it; we pin it on reality. Then we erect, from this erroneous reification, an ontology of physicalism.