Quotes about Humanity
Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus is for real. He does not give up on anyone, least of all on me.
— Desmond Tutu
God has been incredible in creating us to be persons.
— Desmond Tutu
God is not free from human beings but for them.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.
— Francis Collins
Something good made something bad possible (though not inevitable). Humans, however, didn't use their freedom well. Instead of using it to honor God in friendship, they used it to rebel.
— Greg Koukl
American values are not just about America, but they speak to the human dignity, the God-given spark that resides in each and every person across the world.
— Hillary Clinton
But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.
— John Calvin
The other gods were strong; but thou wast weak; they rode, but thou didst stumble to a throne; But to our wounds only God's wounds can speak, And not a god has wounds, but thou alone.
— John Stott
It is only when human beings see themselves simply as human beings, no longer as gods, that they are in a position to perceive the wholly other nature of God.
— Jurgen Moltmann
Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.
— Oprah Winfrey
All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.
— Charles Spurgeon
The perfect surrender and humiliation were undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.
— CS Lewis