Quotes on Human Hands

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological.

Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul.

We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

No one person can fulfill all your needs. But the community can truly hold you. The community can let you experience the fact that, beyond your anguish, there are human hands that hold you and show you God's faithful love.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

The human hand allows the mind to reveal itself.

The world is by no means averse to religion. In fact, it is devoted to it with a passion. It will buy any recipe for salvation as long as that formula leaves the responsibility for cooking up salvation firmly in human hands. The world is drowning in religion. But it is scared out of its wits by any mention of the grace that takes the world home gratis.

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep them. A million things you can't have will fit in a human hand.