Quotes About Humanity

Great God! hast Thou given men Thine own image that it should be thus cruelly defaced by the hands of their brethren!

The sights and sentiments that attend civil conflict, are of a kind to reconcile the human heart, however generous and humane by nature, to severe language and cruel actions.

It is the pest of our profession that we seldom see the best side of human nature.

In order for the postmodern worldview to emerge fully and mature, it needs, among other things, a better sense of history—an idea of what it is the human species has found out about itself in recent centuries, and what effects that discovery has had on us. It is not hard to find some of that in the public record. The postmodern worldview has been a long time in coming. And in recent decades it has been anything but shy about proclaiming its imminent arrival.

In order for the postmodern worldview to emerge fully and mature, it needs, among other things, a better sense of history—an idea of what it is the human species has found out about itself in recent centuries, and what effects that discovery has had on us. It

Be exposed. Be open. Be who you want to be. It will never hurt as much as starving your own humanity of oxygen.

We are as gods on our little rock in the vast bleak cosmos and it's way past time we started getting good at that instead of just posing on Olympus and photoshopping our zits out. The future is more than an Instagram filter.

Bloody Wolf Blitzer intoning that a weather bomb is going to detonate over America because the planet hates humans and time is a flat circle.

All people are scum. No matter what they look like.

It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.

See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see.

There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born... Thus, to know humanity, understand earth. To know earth, understand heaven. To know heaven, understand the Way. To know the Way, understand the great within yourself.

I don't believe that God is concerned with whether or not we show our love by building magnificent edifices for worship, by attending services, or through practicing rules laid down by religious organizations. It seems to me that if God were to speak to us, the message would simply be to love each other and offer reverence rather than enmity toward all of life.

To imagine that Pythagoras, Buddha, Jesus Christ, Michelangelo, Shelley, Shakespeare, Emerson, and so many of those we revere as our teachers and spiritual leaders actually walked on the same ground, drank the same water, watched the same moon, and were warmed by the same sun as I am today intrigues me considerably.

to see the unfolding of God in everyone and when it comes to external appearances, to be a humanistic teacher who wouldn't even notice.

We are all infinite spiritual beings having a temporary human experience, and

amazing: Most of the time, kindness and love really work to get other people to understand that they can't treat you with disrespect. But if it doesn't, then you have to go to plan B and plan C and even plan D—it all comes from this internal belief in who you are as a human being.

As much as some people try to deny it, no one gets off this planet alive. Life, in fact, is a terminal disease.

no one is special or better than anyone else. This sentiment is echoed in the Christian scriptures: "[God] sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous" (Matt. 5:45).

begin the beautiful day doing something kind for another human being someplace on the planet.

Jesus, Buddha, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Paramahansa Yogananda, and Mother Teresa.

to know humanity, understand earth. To know earth, understand heaven. To know heaven, understand the Way. To know the Way, understand the great within yourself.

Every day I see Jesus Christ in all of his distressing disguises.

you're a member of the human race, not a sub-group. Here, you're a nation of the world with a global awareness, rather than a patriot of any one country.