Quotes about Humanity

To have a lasting impact on humanity, we must be more than people who see problems. We must be people with solutions. God is a creator; He's a builder. We get to share in His nature by co-laboring with His heart to answer every question and need carried by people around us.

Let us always love the best in others—and never fear their worst.

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.