Quotes about Human
"An observer of human nature, sir," said Mr. Pickwick.
— Charles Dickens
Man is but mortal; and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend.
— Charles Dickens
In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is -as the light called human life is- at its coming and going.
— Charles Dickens
I labour under the same kind of astonishment to this day, having invariably observed that of all human weaknesses, the one to which our common nature is the least disposed to confess (I cannot imagine why) is the weakness of having gone to sleep in a coach.
— Charles Dickens
In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is—as the light called human life is—at its coming and its going.
— Charles Dickens
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
— Graham Greene
Whether theologians acknowledge it or not, all theologies begin with experience... We are all particular human beings, finite creatures, and we create our understanding of God out of our experience. Hopefully, our own experience points to the universal, but it is never identical with it. For when we mistake our own talk about God with ultimate reality, we turn it into ideology.
— James H. Cone
Unfortunately, a human being is able to comprehend only that amount of evil which he is able to commit himself.
— Joseph Brodsky
The Church of England holds very firmly, and continues to hold to the view, that marriage is a lifelong union of one man to one woman. At the same time, at the heart of our understanding of what it is to be human is the essential dignity of the human being.
— Justin Welby
It's not correct to say Jesus is God. Now, don't run and report me to the bishop, all right? It's not correct to say that - Jesus is the union of the human and the divine. That's different.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The New Testament presents, in its way, the same union of the divine and human as the person of Christ. In this sense also 'the word became flesh, and dwells among us.'
— Philip Schaff
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
— Henry Ward Beecher