Quotes about Human

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

The thing is, we use past relationships like maps to navigate new ones. But it doesn't work that way, because every human, every relationship is different. It's like trying to use a map of Las Vegas to get around Vermont. It won't work. That's why so many people get lost.

The Bible is not an argument. It is a record of human experience. The point is not to prove that it's the word of God or it's inspired or it's whatever the current word is that people are using. The point is to enter into its stories with such intention and vitality that you find what it is that inspired people to write these books.

the one about Abraham leaving, is revolutionary. It's a step forward in human consciousness. You can step out of the cycle? You can leave? And head into the unknown? You can step into something that hasn't happened yet, that doesn't exist yet?

The Bible is a library of books reflecting how human beings have understood the divine.

A thirst for the infinite is indelibly present in human beings. Man was created to have a relationship with God; we need him.

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 constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.

Our salvation is not in some father or human instruments. It is sad to see people so blinded, worshiping the creature more than the Creator.