Quotes about Humanity

You may have had unpleasable teachers or parents as you were growing up. Please don't assume God feels that way about you. He knows you are incapable of being perfect or sinless. The Bible says, "He certainly knows what we are made of. He bears in mind that we are dust." 25

We are human beings, not human doings.

God was thinking of you even before he made the world. In fact, that's why he created it! God designed this planet's environment just so we could live in it. We are the focus of his love and the most valuable of all his creation.

Every human being was created by God, but not everyone is a child of God.

Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.

True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.

The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.