Quotes about Human

In total reality, he comes in the form of the beggar, of the dissolute human child in ragged clothes, asking for help. He confronts you in every person that you meet. As long as there are people, Christ will walk the earth as your neighbor, as the one through whom God calls you, speaks to you, makes demands on you. That is the great seriousness and great blessedness of the Advent message. Christ is standing at the door; he lives in the form of a human being among us.

In other times it may have been the business of Christianity to champion the equality of all men; its business today will be to defend passionately human dignity and reserve.

An image needs a living object, and a copy can only be formed from a model. Either man models himself on the god of his own invention, or the true and living God moulds the human form in his image. There must be a complete transformation, a 'metamorphosis' (Rom. 12:2; 2 Cor. 3:18), if man is to be restored to the image of God.

The attempt to understand reality apart from that action of God in and upon reality means living in anabstraction; it means failing to live in reality and vacillating between the extremes of a servile attitude toward the status quo and a protest in principle against it. Only God's becoming human makes possible an action that is genuinely in accord with reality. The world remains world. But it only does so because God has taken care of it and declared it to be under God's rule.

Life is not a thing, an essence, or a concept, but a person—more specifically, a particular and unique person.

It is solely the form of Christ that matters, not any form besides Christ's own. The church is the human being who has become human, has been judged, and has been awakened to new life in Christ.

Love alone brings a human being to full awareness of personal existence. For it is in love alone that man finds room enough to be what he is.

The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

The whole life story of Jesus, on the human side, is the life story of One who lived by faith.

human language is inadequate to the divine praise

The relationship of the sovereign will of God to the freedom and moral responsibility of people is one of those mysteries.