Quotes about Humanity

What would it be like to be Christ? I mean, did He ever play ball? Did He ever knock a window out of somebody's house and did He ever have to explain to His dad that He had to borrow twelve dollars?

God loves us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.

The nobility of what humans could be capable of, if only they weren't human.

Live more humanly, bravely, and compassionately in such circumstances, mainly through a call to discipleship.

The great crisis of this seventh age is that there has been a second fall. The first fall led to God's expulsion of human beings from the Garden of Eden. The second fall was when we returned the favor.

For [Martin Luther] King nonviolence was more than a strategy; it was the way of life defined by love for others—the only way to heal broken humanity.

The real response to the problem of human sin must always be that I cannot do anything to erase it.

To disrespect a person made in the image and likeness of God is a lot worse than desecrating a flag. We should be offended and repulsed in the same way when God's image bearers are desecrated — abused, beaten, neglected, discriminated against, and not loved and taken care of as they should be.

God forgive the church of Jesus Christ for trading its birthright access to the transcendent for the pot of stew that is horizontal helpfulness. How shortsighted and human centered. The outcome of this disaster is that we have created a Creator in our own image who weeps, cares, and longs to help, but in the end we doubt He can because we have made Him so much like ourselves. In making God our buddy, we find Him nice for cuddling but not much help when the hurricane comes.

In spite of how we know the story unfolded, God included mankind in His conclusion that all He created was good.

All God's righteous hatred of all that sin from all of human history was poured out upon Christ as He hung there on that cross.

We are only prepared to receive and comprehend the grace of God when we have understood His infinite holiness and our incredible sinfulness.