#humanity

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#heroes #humanity #love #psychology #robert-cormier

Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces of humankind. What redeems you is that in every man and woman there is a seed that can grow to encompass love, joy and compassion. But this seed is never allowed to prosper in fertile ground. It struggles for life among the rocks of your human soul. ↗

— David Gemmell

#good #humanity #love #motivation #imagination

Men are Like Guns They Shoot someone and broke them into pieces inside. ↗

— Loise Morales

#men

Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world. ↗

— Hélder Câmara

#diversity #empowerment #humanity #identity #justice

I do not politicize Christianity nor my discipleship as Jesus did not politicize either His divinity nor his humanity. ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#discipleship #humanity-humans #politicization #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

Show me a man who has no interest in his own good, and I'll show you a man who is not in touch with his own humanity." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#r-alan-woods #self-interest #survival-instinct #r-alan-woods

The Garden of Gethsemane narrative gives us a vivid view of Jesus' humanity". ~R. Alan Woods [1999] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#humanity-complexity #humanity-humans #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#humanity #humor #nature #humor

We are medium-sized mammals who only prosper because we've developed a half-arsed ability to terraform the less suitable bits of the planet we evolved on, and we're conscious of our inevitable decay and death, and we can't live anywhere else. There is no invisible sky daddy to give us immortal life and a harp and wings when we die. ↗

— Charles Stross Cory Doctorow

#death #humanity #life #religion #death

When my trust was suspended from the fragile thread of justice and in the whole city they were chopping up my heart's lanterns when they would blindfold me with the dark handkerchief of Law and from my anxious temples of desire fountains of blood would squirt out when my life had become nothing nothing but the tic-tac of a clock, I discovered I must must must love, insanely. ↗

— Forough Farrokhzad

#humanity #love #violence #death