Quotes about Humanity

We humans have never had the resources in ourselves to love each other well across ethnic lines. There is too much selfishness in all of us.

The bloodline of Christ is deeper than the bloodlines of race.

The coming of Jesus was a search-and-save mission. "The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.

It is not a bad thing to desire our own good. In fact, the great problem of human beings is that they are far too easily pleased. They don't seek pleasure with nearly the resolve and passion that they should. And so they settle for mud pies of appetite instead of infinite delight.

That is not just the story of Israel. It's the story of humanity. It's the story of my life and your life.

Therefore, the reason God seeks our praise is not because He won't be complete until He gets it. He is seeking our praise because we won't be complete until we give it. This is not arrogance. It is love.

It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

We are cruel enough without meaning to be.

Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?