Quotes about Human

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

Religious conviction, and the truths Christianity teaches about the inalienable dignity of every human life, can be a dynamic, creative force, bending history in a more human direction.

Our lives are best understood, and our sorrows are best borne, when they are recognized as "playing" within a drama that God himself entered, in the person of his Son, so that the human drama might become, through the redemption, a divine comedy, not a cosmic tragedy or absurdity.

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human faculties. Very different is the Christian ideal. Paganism is optimistic with regard to unaided human nature, whereas Christianity is the religion of the broken heart.

In a sense, I'm mad (and withdrawn from life) while they're sane, human, normal - but in another sense, I speak from the depths of a vision of truth when I say that this continual jockeying for position is the enemy of life in itself. It may be life, 'life is like that,' it may be human and true, but it's also the death-part of life, and our purpose after all is to live and be true. We'll see.

Human courage is an opiate but opiates are human too. If God is an opiate so am I. Therefore eat me. Eat the night

This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.