Quotes related to Jeremiah 1:5
But I said 'no' flat to that. 'They may be all right—I'm not saying they're not—but no London street Arabs for me,' I said. 'Give me a native born at least. There'll be a risk, no matter who we get. But I'll feel easier in my mind and sleep sounder at nights if we get a born Canadian.
— LM Montgomery
What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?
— Francis Collins
DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.
— Bill Gates
Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable
— Harry S. Truman
The prophets make us partners of an existence meant for us. What was revealed to them was not for their sake but intended to inspire us. The word must not freeze into habit; it must remain an event. To disregard the importance of continuous understanding is an evasion of the living challenge of the prophets, an escape from the urgency of responsible experience of every man, a denial of the deeper meaning of "the oral Torah.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
In moments of great crisis they all fail—priests, philosophers, scientists—the prophets alone prevail.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Life is not a thing, an essence, or a concept, but a person—more specifically, a particular and unique person.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!
— Pope John Paul II
Every life is precious to God. God created every one of us. He gave us a soul, and that soul will live as long as God lives.
— Franklin Graham
Does the universe exist only for me? It's possible. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.
— Bill Gates
I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights starting with life.
— Mike Huckabee