Quotes about Human

Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.

Does it surprise you that God presents himself as a model for human community?

Jesus is not manufacturing a new idea for human relationships or the church. His prayer reflects what God's design has always been.

What does all this biblical and experiential data tell us? That you cannot talk about human beings made in God's image without talking about relationships. Yet it is often the first thing we overlook. Only when human beings live in community do we fully reflect the likeness

John Calvin said, "For errors can never be uprooted from human hearts until a true knowledge of God is planted therein." 5

The circle of human community is only healthy when it exists within the larger circle of community with God.

we all must remember that our relationships have been designed as workrooms for redemption, not shelters for human happiness.

True human community only arises out of communion with God

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

LORD GORING: (after a long pause) Nobody is incapable of doing a foolish thing. Nobody is incapable of doing a wrong thing.

The fact that early humans did decorate corpses, lay out the bodies in particular postures or bury people with flowers, aligned horns or tools would support the notion that some ritualization of death is a very ancient human activity.

We are not empathetic creatures naturally, so we must work at it.