Quotes about Human

The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.

The desire of life and health is implanted in man's nature;- the love of liberty and enlargement is a sister-passion to it

Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable

One may observe all the laws and still be practicing a disguised polytheism. For if in performing a religious act one's intention is to please a human being whom he fears or from whom he hopes to receive benefit, then it is not God whom he worships but a human being.

For Sinai consisted of both a divine proclamation and a human perception. It was a moment in which God was not alone.

To most of us a person, a human being, seems to be a maximum of being, the ceiling of reality; we think that to personify is to glorify. Yet do not some of us realize at times that a person is no superlative, that to personify the spiritually real is to belittle it? A personification may be both a distortion and a depreciation.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

The heart of the human problem is the problem of the human heart.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

We ought not to be in too much of a hurry here to speak piously of God's will and guidance. It is obvious, and it should not be ignored, that it is your own very human wills that are at work here, celebrating their triumph; the course that you are taking at the outset is one that you have chosen for yourselves…