Quotes about Humanity

True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.

The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

There is enough sin in my best prayer to send the whole world to Hell.

Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to understand the universe in which they live.

We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.

It takes discipline and compassion to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough to recognize the divine in another.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall dispair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes.

God Almighty has set before me two Great Objects: the supression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners.