Quotes about Humanity

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans even as I exclude myself from the community of sinners

Everything else follows from this responsibility to those who have come before us. It is the root of flourishing humanity.

Human beings are curious, and especially curious about other human beings.

We know Jesus was God. But He was also a man-He got tired; He got hungry; He knew what it was to have crowds pressing around Him all the time; He knew what it was to have His privacy invaded. But He kept right on letting the crowds into His life. He kept on teaching, healing, confronting the powers of hell- and never a cross or impatient word.

During times of disaster sorrow brings people together in a spirit of friendship, and influences man to recognize the blessings of becoming his brother's keeper.

God never retires his image bearers.

The whole human race, beginning with Eve, comes from Adam's wounded side. A second race--a new redeemed humanity--comes from Jesus' wounded side. Jesus is the second Adam. Even before there is despair, God foreshadows hope. The creation of the woman is a sacred, holy moment.

Did people always have to wait for pestilence or war or tragedy to be shocked into forgetting about themselves?

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity, the Christian love that it would take.

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

When there is enough food to feed everyone, why are 870 million people going hungry? We must learn to share what we have; no one race or nation has a greater right to life than another.

Do you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real - it happened when he was in Hell.