#humanity

The more I pursue God, the more I realize that he is inherently different from us. He does not protect his possessions and hoard his toys. He does not look for ways to make us jealous of him, though he, the God Most High, is jealous for us. ↗

— John D. Richardson

#god-s-love #humanity #jealous #love #money

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength. ↗

— Aberjhani

#agape-love #american-history #civil-rights-movement #conflict-resolution #courage

Compassion, empathy and love are the real pillars we need to build with in ourselves to become human. ↗

— Loknath

#humanity-and-society #love

For great changes in the human mind are terrible. As we realize them we realize the limitless possibilities of sinister deeds that lie hidden in every human being. A little child that loves a doll can become an old, crafty, secret murderer. How horrible! And perhaps it is still more horrible to think that, while the human envelope remains totally unchanged, every word of the letter within may become altered, and a message of peace fade into a sentence of death. ↗

— Robert Smythe Hichens

#humanity #mind #change

In the river swam the gleaming fish, which were meant for water, just as humankind is meant for love. ↗

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

#humanity #love #water #love

To make absolute, unconditional surrender to the woman one loves is to break every bond save the desire not to lose her, which is the most terrible bond of all ↗

— Henry Miller

#love

The changes that are external and limited to surface are temporary and fade away quickly. We should make the inner changes so that the reflection of them outside would be what we expect. ↗

— Ilia M. R.

#life #change

In that time while he was still aware, which was the worse, I wonder: the agony of his physical torture or the horror of their utter hatred, of their moral certainty that he was so beyond the bounds of what they could accept that he deserved not just a death but one of such brutality, such inhumanity, as would make the seraphs who burned Sodom bow their heads in cold respect? What is it like, I wonder, to learn the full capacity of hatred in a lesson hammered home with bone broken on wood and skin ripped on barbed wire? ↗

— Hal Duncan

#hatred #inhumanity #death

I’m barely human. I’m more like a creature; to me, everything gives off a scent! Thoughts, moments, feelings, movements, words left unsaid, words barely spoken; they all have a distinct sense, distinct fragrances! Both a smell and a touch! To inhale is to capture, to experience! I can perceive and I can “touch” in so many odd ways! And so I am made up of all these scents, all these feelings! An illumination of nerve endings! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#creature #fragrance #human #humanity #illumination

All of us have failed. One wishes to be punished. One is willing to assume all kinds of penance, but do you know, my daughter, that in love -- I scarcely dare say it -- but in love our very mistakes don't seem to be able to last long? ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#humanity #love #mistakes #love