Quotes about Humanity

Contemporary society urgently needs to recover a deep respect for the full sanctity of human life, but our neighbors will hear our words much more clearly if we live out a completely pro-life vision in every area of life.

I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

That was what had changed, he thought. To love posterity and the great institutions you had to believe in the wisdom of men. You had to love them as a child might, gazing upward.

How incredible it is that in this fragile existence, we should hate and destroy one another.

Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.

One of the most pusillanimous things we of the female sex have done throughout the centuries is to have allowed the male sex to assume that mankind is masculine. It is not. It takes both male and female to make the image of God. The proper understanding of mankind is that it is only a poor, broken thing if either male or female is excluded.

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody, and you're stuck with it.

we're all a grab bag of good and eveil, and by and large can't tell which is which

We are all broken, we human creatures, and to pretend we're not is to inhibit healing.