Quotes about Human

Love is supposed to bring us out of the dark prison of the "my will be done" ego into the joys of "thy will be done", both horizontally and vertically, toward both the human and the divine Other.

There are some truths that no one likes to hear, but it is precisely these that we need to pursue if we are to understand where war lives in human nature.

Stripe for stripe is human law; "by His stripes we are healed" is superhuman, the result of a legislation as gracious as it is divine.

I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.

Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.

The state and its leaders have not only a responsibility but also a vested interest in defending the sacredness and value of every human life.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Did the dead still want things? Or was death simply a letting go of all that is held so tightly in life—an understanding of the temporal and shallow nature of the human matters of possession, greed, desire, justice?

Love is the best and the noblest thing in the human heart, especially when it is tested by life as gold is tested by fire.

There was enough reason for it too, as the whole of France was shaken. Certainly in our eyes the election and its results and its representatives are only symbols. But what it proves once more is that worldly ambition and fame pass away, but the human heart beats the same to this day, in as perfect sympathy with the past of our buried forefathers as with the generation to come.

All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.