Quotes about Humanity

This precious thing of empathy and love and understanding is something we have to hold and appreciate and protect.

God designed humans to live in community.

Everyone can resonate with love.

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

The way I see life, there is only one God, and all the rest are human.

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

Never before in history had the world actually believed in the equality of man.

Regardless of how we might feel about another human being, they are made in God's image and of infinite value and worth.

When we deny our pain, losses, and feelings year after year, we become less and less human.

Why is it that so many Christians make such lousy human beings?

The Deuteronomy reason for Sabbath-keeping is that our ancestors in Egypt went for four hundred years without a vacation (Deuteronomy 5:15). Never a day off. The consequence: they were no longer considered persons but slaves. Hands. Work units. Not persons created in the image of God but equipment for making brick and building pyramids. Humanity was defaced. — Eugene Peterson

To feel is to be human. To minimize or deny what we feel is a distortion of what it means to be image bearers of God. To the degree that we are unable to express our emotions, we remain impaired in our ability to love God, others, and ourselves well. Why? Because our feelings are a component of what it means to be made in the image of God. To cut them out of our spirituality is to slice off an essential part of our humanity.