Quotes about Human
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
He is the only God man has ever heard of who loves sinners. False gods—the gods of human manufacturing—despise sinners, but the Father of Jesus loves all, no matter what they do.
- Brennan Manning
Everybody has a vocation to some form of life work. But behind that and deeper than that, everybody has a vocation to be a person, to be fully and deeply a human being, to be Christlike. And the second thing is more important than the first. It is more important to be a great person than a great teacher, butcher or candlestick maker. And if the only chance of succeeding in the second is to fail in the first, the failure, from God's point of view, is fruitful.
- Brennan Manning
His (Christ's) appearance in our midst has made it undeniably clear that changing the human heart and changing human society are not separate tasks, but are as interconnected as the two beams of the cross.
- Henri Nouwen
I have seen how the fear of becoming subject to God's revenge and punishment has paralyzed the mental and emotional lives of many people, independently of their age, religion, or life-style. This paralyzing fear of God is one of the great human tragedies.
- Henri Nouwen
The situation which brought about your pain was simply the form in which you came in touch with the human condition of suffering.
- Henri Nouwen
Violence in human relationship is so utterly destructive because it not only harms the other but also drives the self into a vicious circle asking for more and more when less and less is received.
- Henri Nouwen
But the past is passed; why moralize upon it? Forget it. See, yon bright son has forgotten it all, and the blue sea, and the blue sky; these have turned over new leaves. Because they have no memory . . . because they are not human.
- Herman Melville
It's an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that he's bound to hell.
- Herman Melville