Quotes about Humanity

Most important, you must learn to love lost people the way God does.

God has never made a person he didn't love. Everybody matters to him.

We accept our humanity intellectually, but not emotionally. When faced with our own limitations, we react with irritation, anger, and resentment. We want to be taller (or shorter), smarter, stronger, more talented, more beautiful, and wealthier. We want to have it all and do it all, and we become upset when it doesn't happen. Then when we notice that God gave others characteristics we don't have, we respond with envy, jealousy, and self-pity.

You may have had unpleasable teachers or parents as you were growing up. Please don't assume God feels that way about you. He knows you are incapable of being perfect or sinless. The Bible says, "He certainly knows what we are made of. He bears in mind that we are dust." 25

We are human beings, not human doings.

God was thinking of you even before he made the world. In fact, that's why he created it! God designed this planet's environment just so we could live in it. We are the focus of his love and the most valuable of all his creation.

Every human being was created by God, but not everyone is a child of God.

Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.