Quotes about Human

28. God's love does not find, but creates, that which is pleasing to it. Human love comes into being through that which is pleasing to it.

Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

The War on Terror is ultimately a battle for the human mind and heart.

This longing to be enjoyed by God is also the seedbed for all the false religions of the world, for the devil exploits this human longing and brings many evil and false religions into existence.

All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting.

When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progressively cease to reflect the image of God.

To begin with, you have to grasp the fact that Christian virtue isn't about you—your happiness, your fulfillment, your self-realization. It's about God and God's kingdom, and your discovery of a genuine human existence by the paradoxical route—the route God himself took in Jesus Christ!—of giving yourself away, of generous love which constantly refuses to take center stage.

there is no such thing as a god's-eye view (by which would be meant a Deist god's-eye view) available to human beings, a point of view which is no human's point of view.

What is needed is history, genuine history, multi-faceted history, 'thick description' history that takes seriously the full range of human life and culture.

The living God comes into his world in the person of Israel's representative, to do for Israel and the world what they could not do for themselves, to be the place of meeting between the Creator and his human creatures.