Charles Eastman Quotes

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.

There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.

All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.

Measuring sticks try to rank some people as big and some people as small - but we aren't sizes. We are souls. There are no better people or worse people - there are only God-made souls.

The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.

I believe that the whole human race is the family of God.

I'm art. You're art. We are God's greatest works, simple as that.

All lives have an equal value.

The color of the prisoner’s skin, and the form of his features, are not impressed upon the spiritual immortal mind which works beneath. In spite of human pride, he is still your brother, and mine, in form and color accepted and approved by his Father, and yours, and mine, and bears equally with us the proudest inheritance of our race — the image of our Maker. Hold him then to be a Man.

Each child is made in the image of God and has inherent worth.

All are essentially equal in the eyes of God.

We can all mouth the words that every human is fundamentally worthy, but we don't act like it. We don't even believe it about ourselves.

May the humanity that is within every human being be held precious. The vice that underlies all vices is that we are held cheap by others, and far worse, that in our innermost soul we think cheaply of ourselves.

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

No human on God's earth is a nobody.

Every human being shall see in each and all of his fellow-men a hidden divinity... that every human being is made in the likeness of the Godhead. When that time comes there will be no need for any religious coercion; for then every meeting between one man and another will of itself be in the nature of a religious rite, a sacrament.

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth.

Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.

I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across.

It will do all of us good if every child begins to learn that they’re endowed by the Creator and, by the way, so is the person next to them … So if you’re a rapist, the person you’re raping is endowed by God.

We have all witnessed, as well, family, friends, or medical workers who have chosen to provide years of loving care to persons who may suffer from Alzheimer's or other debilitating illnesses precisely because they are human persons, not because doing so instrumentally advances some other hidden objective.

Every human - especially the most vulnerable, the unborn, the infirm, those ravaged by age and those desperate in despair - should be protected in law, loved, and told repeatedly of their incredible beauty and worth.