Quotes about People
What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well.
— John Ortberg
I love people. Jesus loves people.
— Kenneth Copeland
In the minds of the early Christians, the people—not the architecture—constituted a sacred space.
— Frank Viola
People are more important to Him than human traditions.
— Frank Viola
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Christianity is not an ethical code. It is a love affair, a Spirit-filled way of living aimed at making us professional lovers of God and people.
— Brennan Manning
People we meet, some great in the eyes of the world and some almost invisible to the larger society, are often conduits of God's wisdom.
— Henri Nouwen
As long as we keep dividing our lives between events and people we would like to remember and those we would rather forget, we cannot claim the fullness of our beings as a gift of God to be grateful for.
— Henri Nouwen
Community thus is obedience practiced together. The question is not simply, "Where does God lead me as an individual person who tries to do his will?" More basic and more significant is the question, "Where does God lead us as a people?"
— Henri Nouwen
It is important to think about the Church not as over there but as a community of struggling, weak people of whom we are part and in whom we meet our Lord and Redeemer.
— Henri Nouwen
A prayerful life, then, is one in which we convert the world from darkness, people from mere roles to persons.
— Henri Nouwen
Divine guidance can be found in the books we read, the nature we enjoy, the people we meet, and the events we experience.
— Henri Nouwen