Quotes about Humanity
Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.
— CS Lewis
God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.
— CS Lewis
Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.
— Thomas Jefferson
When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of man, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse.
— Donald Miller
As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.
— Marcus Aurelius
It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.
— Albert Camus
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
— Albert Schweitzer
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis
— CS Lewis
The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.
— Phillips Brooks