Quotes About Humanity

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls.

To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being... When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups.

It is an old and bitter experience of the human race that when once a gulf-stream of a particular evil has got started, it is always being whipped forward by some new little breeze, or enlarged by some new little stream emptying itself into it. A magnetic power, it seems, in such a gulf-stream of evil, attracts these casual and accidental encouragements.

Had the whole human race, in the circles of some immense Colosseum gathered together to see Mrs. Cobbald executed it is certain that she would never have blinked an eyelid, or lapsed one hair's breadth from her fortitude.

Jerry had indeed something in him that went beyond Rabelaisianism, in that he not only could get an ecstasy of curious satisfaction from the most drab, ordinary, homely, realistic aspects of what might be called the excremental under-tides of existence but he could slough off his loathing for humanity in this contemplation and grow gay, child-like, guileless.

Every human creature is a terror to every other human creature. Human minds are like unknown planets, encountering and colliding.

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.

Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.

People always wonder when the world is going to end. I believe that the world will end when everyone stops loving.

Sorry seems to be the hardest word for us human's to say to each other!

Forgive yourself for your mistakes. No one is ever all good or all bad. Doing something you regret doesn't make you a hateful person, just as doing something good doesn't make you a saint.

FORGIVING is the closest humans can come to perfection.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. Forgiveness brings peace to your heart and wings to your soul.

Forgive people not just because they deserve it, but because you may need it someday.

Be forgiving before asking forgiveness. Nature is neutral, humans are not. If you want the same hapiness to feel, you must first be a good living sample of it.

An adultress passed by a dog at a well; and the dog was holding out his tongue from thirst, which was near killing him, and the woman drew off her boot, and tied it to the end of her garment, and drew water for the dog, and gave him to drink; and she was forgiven for that act.

To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

I believe in sympathy, compassion and forgiveness,

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.

Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, Such are the Gates of Paradise.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.