Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Whether or not we belong to a church or service organization or have a job that provides meaningful service opportunities, not a… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Human progress planned as alternatives (to God's plan) introduce in justice, evil and violence rising against the divine plan of justice and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
I try to spend a little bit of time on my knees every day, but it all begins for me with cherishing… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."Mark McCormack, Author and sports entrepreneur"Psychologists tell us that money is… — John Baldoni Copy Share Image
I don't view myself as a particularly intelligent people, but I do have one ability that I've demonstrated over and over again,… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
Because even if they are doing something immoral, I'd be an idiot to start criticizing them for it if I wasn't perfect… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Even if we act immediately, the world is doomed to lose many of its animal and plant species and this inturn will… — Achim Steiner Copy Share Image
Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
... women of the North, I ask you to rise up with earnest, honest purpose, and go forward in the way of… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
If spirituality is not religion or cynicism or sentimentality or narcissism, then what is it?... we can confidently say... that spirituality is… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Even granting that we [humans] face greater harm than laboratory animals presently endure if ... research on these animals is stopped, the… — Tom Regan Copy Share Image
I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice.… — Bruce Greenwood Copy Share Image
All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
I don't believe there's more than one human man or woman in a thousand who can think internationally, and until the majority… — Sylvia Thompson Copy Share Image
Go, mark the matchless working of the power That shuts within the seed the future flower; Bids these in elegance of form… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
If there be a human being who is freer than I, then I shall necessarily become his slave. If I am freer… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
For many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an issue, a bother, an "affair"… And has it really… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know… — George Perkins Marsh Copy Share Image
I think we have to trust ourselves in the darkness of not knowing. The God out of which we came and into… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Where mathematics and spirit join, where proof of the existence of mystery-salvific mystery-shimmers just below the surfaces of human perception, experience and… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
[Pope Francis] comes to that conviction [of family crisis] as a pastor, not as Brad Wilcox or Charles Murray. So he wants… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The androcentric, patriarchal cultures, whatever you want to call it, are quite new. So, every economic statement should start with reproduction, not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The future is our responsibility, but change will not take place until the majority loose confidence in their dictator’s and elected officials’… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
As human beings, we ought to be vulnerable. We shouldn't try to say that we can be self-sufficient or do everything that's… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth!… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image