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Quotes About Beings

Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.
~ Anne Hebert
Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
~ Ludwig von Mises
The gods are very dangerous, and they can do bad things to human beings.
~ David Bruce
The warrior priests worship insects as sacred beings, and believe that the ingestion of insects ennobles man and keeps him from descending into bestiality.
~ David Cronenberg
Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the universe.
~ David Deutsch
The idea that there could be beings that are to us as we are to animals is a belief in the supernatural.
~ David Deutsch
This is because there is every reason to believe that slavery, with its unique ability to rip human beings from their contexts, to turn them into abstractions, played a key role in the rise of markets everywhere.
~ David Graeber
The ultimate Author of all our volitions is the Creator of the world, who first bestowed motion on this immense machine, and placed all beings in that particular position, whence every subsequent event, by an inevitable necessity, must result. Human actions, therefore, either can have no moral turpitude at all, as proceeding from so good a cause; or if they have any turpitude, they must involve our Creator in the same guilt, while he is acknowledged to be their ultimate cause and author.
~ David Hume
There will never be beings unloved by God, since God is absolute love.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God.
~ Meher Baba
'To worship or not to worship' has never been the question for all of God's created beings are inherently worshipers...it is more consistently a question of who we will worship.
~ Judson Cornwall
I think God is everything. Human beings created the punitive, vengeful deity who considers us to be innate sinners.
~ Alanis Morissette
The angels of God are bright and shining beings, emanating light and mirroring the glory of God.
~ Basilea Schlink
So what does that make you think about God? I think that maybe, if human beings have souls, that maybe their souls are in their eyes. That maybe that's what the color is. Their souls.
~ Brent Runyon
God is a tremendous supporter of creation, especially of all living beings.
~ Thomas Keating
The entire hierarchy of angels can best be described as an endlessly vast sphere of beings, who surround an unknowable centre-point, which is called God.
~ Malcolm Godwin
Why will God's creatures sin against his throne? Can there be such madness in beings gifted with reason's light?
~ Charles Grandison Finney
The obedience of men is to imitate the obedience of angels, and rational beings on earth are to live unto God, as rational beings in heaven live unto Him.
~ William Law
Angels are spirit beings who are mentioned more than 250 times in both the Old Testament and the New Testament of the Bible.
~ Mary C. Neal
(Those who) impute such actions to God, as make Him resemble the worst of beings, and so run into downright Demonism.
~ Matthew Tindal
I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.
~ Max Lucado
Sin, without strong restraints, would pull God from His throne, make the world the minion of its lusts, and all beings bow down and worship.
~ Richard Cecil
Human beings are special. We're creatures (we're not little gods), but we're also more than creatures. In fact, we're the most wonderful creatures in the world next to God.
~ Greg Koukl
The good news is that we are Buddha. The bad news is that all beings are Buddha. The sickness of being human is the sickness of wanting to be unique.
~ Albert Low