Quotes about Human

A spiritual and saving knowledge of God is the greatest need of every human creature.

In one of his letters to Erasmus, Luther said, "YOUR thoughts of God are too human."

The total depravity of human nature does not mean that it actually breaks forth into open acts of all kinds of evil in any one man.

The Divine love is commonly regarded as a species of amiable weakness, a sort of good-natured indulgence; it is reduced to a mere sickly sentiment, patterned after human emotion.

But we are living in a day when even the most "orthodox" seem afraid to admit the proper Godhood of God. They say that to press the sovereignty of God excludes human responsibility; whereas human responsibility is based upon divine sovereignty, and is the product of it.

Noah, when he came out onto a judgment-swept earth to be the new father of the human race, defiled his escutcheon at a very early date and brought a curse on his son.

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

Attempts at description are stupid. Who can all at once describe a human being? Even when he is presented to us we only begin that knowledge of his appearance which must be completed by innumerable impressions under differing circumstances.

for the human mind in that grassy corner had not the proverbial tendency to admire the unknown, holding rather that it was likely to be against the poor man, and that suspicion was the only wise attitude with regard to it.

so much subtler is a human mind than the outside tissues which make a sort of blazonry or clock-face for it.

the human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.