humanity

For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who, descending from the mountains, carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished dogs__s from a savage who delights to torture his enemies, offers up bloody sacrifices, practices infanticide without remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions.

Theology is a superstition__umanity a religion.

The history of the human race doesn__ make happy reading, does it? I__e seen a lot of sadness during my time, but I__e seen seen a lot of things that have kept my faith in humanity alive too. If there were no bad things in the world, we__ have nothing to measure the good against, would we? The light can only shine in darkness.

God is the Prince of Peace.

Hard as it may sound, no god has saved anything or anyone in human history. It is the humans who have done so.

Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.

Your God would never punish you for being a human being: this life itself is your penance...But it is also more than that: it is a crucible for transformation. Each trial, every loss, is an opportunity for you to meet suffering with love and make of it an offering, a prayer. The minute you lift your pain like a candle the darkness vanishes, and mercy comes rushing in to heal you.

God created all people.

The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing.

I do not know your woes, Humans, but I do know that they are abundant. Believe in each other, and stand together, and you will conquer them all.

The more we grow in faith, the more we grow in love.

Love never lies and it never tries, it's unafraid and heaven made.Keep the faith, surrender the time, just like a grape we need to ripen on the vine.Be like a fairy, constantly glow, leave a trail of love wherever you go.Do not try to make sense of this world. Do try to know yourself and to grow yourself while in it.The more you are, the more you have.Rather than make the best of a situation, make the best situation. Create, don't negate.Keep the dream alive and the heart open.Be your most glorious self, and even better, be indifferent to what anyone may think of it.Don't fear the dark, it's helping you find the light. We wouldn't know morning, if we didn't see night.Never give to say you've given, never shy away from a good cry, never stop a laugh from happening, and always wonder, why?Don't get mad, get motivated!

God will judge us by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.

That's how you avoid becoming a moth," he says. "Stop asking others what to believe. Figure it out for yourself.

We have nothing to lose in this life: We came naked into the world and we will exit naked.

The highest function of humanity is belief, that activity of spirit that proceeds upon the pathway of reason, until it comes to some great promontory, and then spreads its wings, and upon the basis of its earlier journeying, takes eternity into its grasp.

A fellow has to believe in something, Jay-such as the rottenness of humanity.

We are a blessing to each other.