Quotes About Human

It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences.

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death.

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence.

In human society, thinking's the greatest transgression of all.

But wit or irony is like a hitch in his swing for a kid like the Swede, irony being a human consolation and beside the point if you're getting your way as a god.

There is no punishment too extreme for the crazy bastard who came up with the idea of fidelity. To demand of human flesh fidelity.

Quando la tragedia umana si è compiuta, la si passa ai giornalisti affinché, banalizzandola, la trasformino in spettacolo.

I myself dreamed of a mammoth banner, draped dadaistically like a Christo wrapping from one end of the White House to the other and bearing the legend A HUMAN BEING LIVES HERE.

We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.

The fact that Jesus came to earth where he suffered and died does not remove pain from our lives. But it does show that God did not sit idly by and watch us suffer in isolation. He became one of us. Thus, in Jesus, God gives us an up-close and personal look at his response to human suffering. All our questions about God and suffering should, in fact, be filtered through what we know about Jesus.

Christian faith, which is at its heart about self-giving—God's self-giving and human self-giving—and not about self-imposing.

A human being is not someone who once in a while makes a mistake, and God is not someone who now and then forgives. No, human beings are sinners and God is love.

He learned, like every good novelist, that human behaviour can neither be explained nor predicted, only rendered.

Imposition stands starkly at odds with the basic character of the Christian faith, which is at its heart about self-giving—God's self-giving and human self-giving—and not about self-imposing.

The committee has again been reminded that every human effort is flawed

God has entrusted flawed human beings with a message so powerful that it sometimes does its work in spite of us.

Knowledge is passive, intellectual; suffering is active, personal. No intellectual answer will solve suffering. Perhaps this is why God sent his own Son as one response to human pain, to experience it and absorb it into himself.

At times, God's history seems to operate on an entirely different plane than ours...Exodus identifies by name the two Hebrew midwives who helped save Moses' life, but it does not bother to record the name of the Pharaoh ruling Egypt (an omission that has baffled scholars ever since).

Jesus' prayers for Peter — and perhaps for Judas as well — express God's unfathomable respect for human freedom.

God may be the Sovereign Lord of the Universe, but through his Son, God has made himself as approachable as any doting human father.