Quotes about Humanity

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. (He laughs.) Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. (Pause.) Let us not speak well of it either. (Pause.) Let us not speak of it at all.

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.

Let observation with extensive viewSurvey mankind, from China to Peru.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.

And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.

Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs; He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners, the savior of those in need of one. Which is all of us, all of the time.

From the time of Cain until the last believer before Christ's return, we are all fundamentally in the same boat. We suffer the same spiritual afflictions and tendencies.

We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.