#uma

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

The purpose of life is a life of purpose ↗

— Robert Byrne

#life

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

Loving humanity means as much, and as little, as loving raindrops, or loving the Milky Way. You say that you love humanity? Are you sure you aren’t treating yourself to easy self-congratulation, seeking approval, making certain you’re on the right side? ↗

— Julian Barnes

#humanity #mankind #love

An odd thing about perception is that when we identify some new thing with one or more of our five senses, it is not really, immutably real -- it is a passing will o’ the wisp, an artifact of the senses and the translations of the brain until we get used to it and we give it a home in our hearts ↗

— Nigel Hey

#life-lessons #mind #philosophy #psychology #reality

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. ↗

— George Carlin

#humor #humour #perspective #philosophie #humor

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#history #human-nature #humor #reality #humor

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#love #relationships #love