Quotes About Humanity

and seeing that face, touching it and loving it in ourselves and others, is the experience of God. It is our divine humanness. It is the high we all seek.

Our species is in trouble because we fight too much. We fight ourselves, each other, our planet, and God. Our fear-ridden ways are threatening our survival. A thoroughly loving person is like an evolutionary mutation, manifesting a being that puts love first and thus creates the context in which miracles occur.

A ribbon of love runs through our veins, like electric impulses connecting us to every other living thing.

Cristo interior es un ser que ha vuelto a nacer, cuyo padre es Dios y cuya madre es nuestra humanidad, que está ahí para expresar el potencial divino que hay dentro de cada uno de nosotros.

Who are we that such problems even exist among us? And who do we have to become in order to solve them?

Basta imaginar lo que sería el mundo si nos viéramos unos a otros y pensáramos, "¡Sé que hay algo maravilloso ahí dentro!

Humanity itself is being challenged to move on to the next stage of our evolution.

We cannot save the world without God's help, but He can't save the world without ours. We need His love; He needs our hands and feet. Today I give Him mine.

We need a revolution of the heart.

The problem isn't that we're lost or apathetic, narcissistic or materialistic. The problem is we're terrified.

The key, very simply, is other people.

Marie is a person whose life experiences, though different from most, have never robbed her of her humanity. At the very depth of her psychosis, she could touch her own wish for sanity even though this touch required every bit of her will to live. From a curled-up position of catatonic silence on her hospital bed, she could still see herself: 'I looked at myself and said, 'No more. I can't go on this way anymore...if I ever want to get out of here, if I ever want to get better (xiii)

Very few of us lack superficial faults and we must rely on each other's kindness to overlook them.

Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity we once were? So compact no body needed a bed, or food or money ~ no body hiding in he school bathroom or home alone pulling open the drawer where the pills are left For every atom belong to me as good belong to you. Remember?

we could wake up to what we were — when we were ocean and before that to when sky was earth, and animal was energy, and rock was liquid and stars were space and space was not at all — nothing before we came to believe humans were so important before this awful loneliness

One should never blame gods, he believed, for the use to which human beings put them.

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

La bestia de la cual vivían atemorizados era en realidad ellos mismos: Era el hombre, no algún demonio mitológico, quien a final iba a destruir al hombre. Y esta bestia había sido creada de su miedo.

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any.

I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God's grace, since I am utterly certain it exceeds any imagination a human being might have of it. God does, after all, so love the world.

I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there are geniuses scheming to astonish the rest of us, just for the pleasure of it.

there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.