It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God.
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
I can't dream about immortal fireflies, but I can fight for human freedom.
There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
You have to see the human being in the enemy. If there is potential for change, there is still hope.
Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit.
I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.
In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.
My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.
We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.
The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
