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The tests and exams were not so difficult to pass but we fail a 'yes' or 'no' answer when it comes to dealing with sin
— Wogu Donald
I have sometimes thought there could not be a stronger testimony in favor of religion or against temporal enjoyments even the most rational and manly than for men who occupy the most honorable and gainful departments and are rising in reputation and wealth, publically to declare their unsatisfactoriness by becoming fervent advocates in the cause of Christ, and I wish you may give in your evidence in this way. Such instances have seldom occurred; therefore, they would be more striking and would be instead of a 'cloud of witnesses.
— Madison, James
Why not live for the reaches of Heaven than strive for the depths of Hell? If in the end there is nothing- what have you lost but fear and anger and hate?
— Amber E. Box
You know, when people who were once religious no longer believe in God, they never really change; they just go on, hunting for the ecstatic food, trying to satisfy that hunger.
— Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
Any law that belittles God is man made.
— Auliq Ice
Pleasure from the senses seems like nectar at first, but it is bitter as poison in the end.
— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
If one person has an imaginary friend they're crazy, if many people have the same imaginary friend its religion
— Iraniya Naynesh
God isn’t in the event
— God is in the results after the event. He is in the love and concern and caring.
I have no ambition to change my nature, I merely intend to conquer my dislikes.
— Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest
Seeking rest is like seeking the gift rather than the Giver
—  you can't receive the gift without first finding the Giver.
Both glory and dominion last forever but glory is for God and dominion is for mankind.
— Auliq Ice
When the GRACE of God is empty in a man's life then the DISGRACE of the devil comes in.
— Olasunkanmi Ayanmo
Joy is only as satisfying as repentance is deep.
— Nate Shurden
I Am One, Let Me Become Many. .. PSJ
— Psy Shiva Jogi
Earthly things will pass away. They will pass away and what will be left is my Savior.
— Kelly O'Connor McNees, In Need of a Good Wife
Zombies are far better than religious people, because they do not discriminate in killing.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none, but He knows the bitterness of our souls.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
God is omnipresent, yet the attempts to provide him a transit office space are made good in a temple
— Priyavrat Thareja- The Temple of TQM, OmniScience, Vol 2, No 2 (2012)
Let us build for the tomorrow, build a nation strong and free; and the Lord who dwells above us, He will bless our destiny".
— P. J. Peters
No man is perfect but God is. What do you think?
— Koyel Mitra
DEMONS MUST BE RELIGIOUSDue to exorcism based on each religion's practices
— Kamil Ali, Profound Vers-A-Tales
Thou wilt be condemned in to everlasting redemption for this.
— Much Ado About Nothing
Saying that you religion is better than other religions is similar to saying that your mother is great but other mothers are characterless.
— Ismat Ahmed Shaikh
Your Heart, Your Mind, Your Creator! Your Soul Will Follow.
— Richard M. Knittle Jr., The Battle Lost: Ryder's Birth
Sticking a straw up your butt won't get rid of the constipation.
— Jess H
God is always loving you.
— Aaron M. Stephens MBA
In her mind she was free
—  only her body was captive.
your failure to acknowledge the existence of God makes you worst than the devil.
— Almon
Then little Gerda said the Lord's Prayer; the cold was so intense that she could see her own breath; it came out of her mouth like smoke. Her breath became thicker and thicker, and took the form of little angels who grew larger and larger as soon as they touched the ground. All had helmets on their heads, and lances and shields in their hands; their numbers increased, and when Gerda had finished her prayer a whole legion stood around her. They trust their lances against the horrible snow-flakes, so that the latter flew into a hundred pieces; and little Gerda went forward safely and cheerfully. The angels stroked her hands and feet, so that she felt the cold less, and she hastened on to the Snow Queen's castle.
— Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Queen
Men speak of God’s love for man… but if providence does not come in this hour, where is He then? My conclusion is simple. The Semitic texts from Bronze Age Palestine of which Christianity is comprised still fit uncomfortably well with contemporary life. The Old Testament depicts a God capricious and cruel; blood sacrifice, vengeance, genocide; death and destruction et al. Would He not approve of Herr Hitler and the brutal, tribalistic crusade against Hebrews and non-Christian ‘untermensch?’One thing is inarguable. His church on Earth has produced some of the most vigorous and violent contribution to the European fascist cause.It is synergy. Man Created God, even if God Created Man; it all exists in the hubris and apotheosis of the narcissistic soul, and alas, all too many of the human herd are willing to follow the beastly trait of leadership. The idea of self-emancipation and advancement, with Europe under the jackboot of fascism, would be Quixotic to the point of mirthless lunacy.
— Daniel S. Fletcher, Jackboot Britain
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
— 1 John 2 1517
...With a religious book it is less what we see in it than what we see through it that matters. J. R. R. Tolkien's fairy-tale epic the Lord of the Rings helps draw the distinction perhaps. Some of its admirers have tried to make it into a religion book by claiming, among other things, that the Ring of Power which must be destroyed is the hydrogen bomb. Tolkien, on the other hand, denied this unequivocally. But intended or otherwise, there can be little doubt that for many it has become a religious book. The "Frodo Lives" buttons are not entirely a joke, because something at least comes to life through those fifteen hundred pages, although inevitably it is hard to say just what. It seems to have something to do with the way Tolkien has of making us see the quididity of things like wood, bread, stone, milk, iron, as though we have never seen them before or not for a long time, which is probably the truth of the matter; his landscapes set deeper echoes going in us than any message could. He gives us back a sense that we have mostly lost of the things of the earth, and because we are ourselves of the earth, whatever else, we are given back too some sense of our own secret. Very possibly again he did not intend it. I may well be axiomatic that, religiously, a writer achieves most when he is least conscious of doing so. Certainly the attempt to be religious is as doomed as the attempt to be poetic is.
— Frederick Buechner, A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces
Then the Lord said: "If you had the faith the size of a mustard grain, you would say to this black mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea!' and it would obey you. Luke 17:6 New World Translation of the World Scriptures
— New World Translation of the World Scriptures
When you turn the construction of your life over to God, He'll build something beautiful.
— Joyce Myer
The incentive for a religious person turning into an atheist is to have a better and happier life
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Time is a universal regressor, time will prove everything
— Totok R. Biyanto
For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.
— Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Believers often forget that most atheists used to be religious, that many non-believers used to think they had a personal relationship with their God and they used to 'feel' the power of prayer. They've since learned that it was all a farce, that their feelings were internal emotions and not some external force.
— David G. McAfee
We all got to die," she said. "But dying as your true self is always better. God'll take you however you come to Him. But it's easier on a soul to come to Him clean. You're forever free that way. From top to bottom.
— James McBride, The Good Lord Bird
Ugly and futile: lean neck and thick hair and a stain of ink, a snail’s bed. Yet someone had loved him, borne him in her arms and in her heart. But for her the race of the world would have trampled him underfoot, a squashed boneless snail. She had loved his weak watery blood drained from her own. Was that then real? The only true thing in life? His mother’s prostrate body the fiery Columbanus in holy zeal bestrode. She was no more: the trembling skeleton of a twig burnt in the fire, an odour of rosewood and wetted ashes. She had saved him from being trampled underfoot and had gone, scarcely having been. A poor soul gone to heaven: and on a heath beneath winking stars a fox, red reek of rapine in his fur, with merciless bright eyes scraped in the earth, listened, scraped up the earth, listened, scraped and scraped.
— James Joyce, Ulysses
Welcome to His poem. His play. His novel. Skip the bowls of fruit and statues. Let the page flick your thumbs. This is His spoken word.
— N.D. Wilson, Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World
Have you ever noticed that all four of the greatest poets in the world are Muslim? And yet all the Muslims you meet are illiterate or covered head to toe in black burkas or looking for buildings to blow up? It’s a puzzle, isn’t it? If you ever figure these people out, send me an e-mail.
— Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check--agents and employees, I mean, of a mythical, medieval, man-made God, anthropomorphic in constitution.
— Luther Burbank
If the sky has turned a darkened grey and the sea threatens to spill the occupants in the boat, know that the Lord God made the storm still, and though you shall face storms in your life the Lord God will still them with his hand. When you are alone, Jesus will have his arms wrapped around you, holding you tightly, the angels shall call out your name when you feel that you have been deaf, and you shall see the light of Heaven when you think you are blind. When you feel your dreams are broken it does not do well to cast yourself into misery but look at the brighter side of life, and see all the Lord has blessed you with!
— Ariana Pedigo, Little Man
Seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.
— Doctrine and Covenants 88 118
You cannot be both religious and unbiased.
— M.F. Moonzajer
If your screen stays blank or your notepad empty, God cannot use your words.
— K.M. Logan, Called To Write, Biblical Truths For Authors and Bloggers
It knows you.Every soul is connected to it in the same way-nobody is closer farther.Doesn't matter what your beliefs were in that life or any of them.Only the soul can create distance between itself and what you call God...and almost every one of us does,at one time or another.Then we just have to learn how to bridge the distance and find our way home again.There are lots of different ways.
— Sheri Meshal, Swallowtail
Religious / Spiritual leaders and motivational speakers tell us to give more of ourselves to get back much more in return but the fact that we start expecting something back in return is in itself a rotten deal for us to push ourselves into."Who am I?" is a good question to ask myself when there is nothing else to do with my time.
— Suraj Dahal
Those who claim to be closest to God are furthest from Heaven.
— Navonne Johns
A person does not have to be religious to reach the top of the Ladder of Success; but every one that step onto the Ladder of Success, must have hope.
— Ellen J. Barrier, How to Trust God When All Other Resources Have Failed
Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?
— Eugene H. Peterson, The Contemplative Pastor: Returning to the Art of Spiritual Direction
Sheer human decency and civility are two of the most important contributions to our community life that women of courage can make.
— Chieko N. Okazaki, Lighten Up
We have, by God's grace, been given another day to serve and love, laugh and learn, pray and ponder. Spring is ready to burst into the open air, and we are ready to embrace it.
— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith
Lord Shiva, you my sunshine, my soul, Sivoham.
— Usha Cosmico
I mean, wha comfort does pretendin to be a Buddhist or wharrever give him? What's wrong with pretendin to be a Catholic like the rest of us?
— Trevor Byrne, Ghosts & Lightning
I can look beyond the cloudsto feel your lovethe sun will rise againto end the darkness
— April Nichole, Lifting My Hands to Heaven
When sorrows surround you few will comfort you. When happiness arises many will be part of the celebrationsAnd when Tragedy happens only the Lord is a prayer by calling out his Glorious name
— Sonny Cele
There is no God, but we whole world can creat (God) by loving & helping eachothers !
— Basu regmi nepal
My duty, I know, is to lead. I cannot offer an array of options. I must offer a long but narrow path to Salvation, and guide the Saints down it. Were that path wide and varied, it would lead nowhere; and I will then have failed both God and man.
— David Ebershoff, The 19th Wife
Wherever there is a religious regime, over there there is ignorance, misery and absurdity! No religious state can ever elevate its own people! Sooner or later, the primitiveness of the religious administrations and the irrationality of the religious rules will cause a great collapse of those countries! The downfall is inevitable!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A nation established under GodA nation that will only winif we stand together
— April Nichole, Eyes to Heaven
Some countries and some people are so primitively religious and so underdeveloped that they don’t need a time machine to go back to the past; they are already in there, in the very distant and dark past!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When I stand strong in youI can look beyond the cloudsWith your wordsThe sun will rise again
— April Nichole
Viewed in this light, life itself appears as a dynamics of integration that is equipped with auto-therapeutic or 'endo-clinical' competencies and refers to a species-specific space of surprise. It has an equally innate and - in higher organisms - adaptively acquired responsibility for the injuries and invasions it regularly encounters in its permanently allocated environment or conquered surroundings. Such immune systems could equally be described as organismic early forms of a feeling for transcendence: thanks to the efficiency of these devices, which are constantly at the ready, the organism actively confronts the potential bringers of its death, opposing them with its endogenous capacity to overcome the lethal. Such functions have earned immune systems of this type comparisons to a 'body police' or border patrol. But as the concern, already at this level, is to work out a modus vivendi with foreign and invisible powers - and, in so far as these can bring death, 'higher' and 'supernatural' ones - this is a preliminary stage to the behaviour one is accustomed to terming religious or spiritual in human contexts. For every organism, its environment is its transcendence, and the more abstract and unknown the danger from that environment, the more transcendent it appears.
— Peter Sloterdijk, Du mußt dein Leben ändern
Knowledge and the study of God's Word is voided by the folding of unwilling hands.
— Joshua Roman
If I were a religious person, I would have been very freaking one; mixture of logic and lie.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Letting goI can have a firm foundationTo honor youAnd hold you in my heart
— April Nichole, Lifting My Hands to Heaven
There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.”Ephesians 4:4-6 (King James Version)
— Anonymous
I’m from Texas…the bigger the hair, the closer to God!
— Lilly Ghalichi
He had forgotten that God saw through the silk robes to the sinful heart, that the only wealth worth having was treasure in heaven, and that even the king had to kneel down in church. Feeling that everyone else was so much more powerful and sophisticated than he was, he had lost sight of his true values, suspended his critical faculties, and placed his trust in his superiors. His reward had been treachery.
— Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth
These hands will never go awaythey will scoop you up at anytimeanytime that you want to be loved
— April Nichole, Eyes to Heaven
You are my strength when I am weakYou are my shield when I am hurtingWhatever you say unto me LordI will do
— April Nichole, Eyes to Heaven
For one man to gain another must lose
— Samuel McMahon
Look upward to himLook to him for everythingLook to him for answersLook to him for a listening ear
— April Nichole, Eyes to Heaven
Look upward to himLook upward on our goalKeep your eyes on himLook upward to him
— April Nichole, Eyes to Heaven
Knowing that you knew everything about us before we were bornLord, your love is amazing
— April Nichole, Eyes to Heaven
My Lord, my God here are my words
— April Nichole, Eyes to Heaven
You have my life,My heart,My soul in your hands
— April Nichole, Eyes to Heaven
We need your patienceYour knowledgewe need your caring heart
— April Nichole, Eyes to Heaven
You said one day you would come back for usThe ones that believed in youThe ones that asked you into their heartsThe ones that served you
— April Nichole, Eyes to Heaven
These hands are unlike any otherstrongbut gentlecaringlovingand understanding
— April Nichole, Eyes to Heaven
For an atheist you will be always considered as a human no matter what, but for a religious if you don’t belong with them, you are always an infidel.
— M.F. Moonzajer
In another land there is gloryIn another land there is happinessIn another land we all get alongIn another land we will stand with others
— April Nichole, Eyes to Heaven
Today I want to leave the worldI want to leave the painLeave the heartacheI know where it is goingI want to see my Savior
— April Nichole, Eyes to Heaven
To be held in his armsI long for that dayThe da that I get to seemore wonderful things
— April Nichole, Eyes to Heaven
We can hear your voiceWe can hear it through the songs of praiseWe can hear it through the birdsWe can hear it through the windWe can hear your voice in our heartsWe can hear your voice in our mindsWe can hear you through everyhing
— April Nichole, Eyes to Heaven
Look upward to himLook to him for everythingLook to him for helpLook to him for comfort
— April Nichole, Eyes to Heaven
Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly human in a world that half the time we're in love with and half the time scares the hell out of us. Any fiction that helps us pay attention to that is religious fiction. The unexpected sound of your name on somebody's lips. The good dream. The strange coincidence. The moment that brings tears to your eyes. The person who brings life to your life. Even the smallest events hold the greatest clues.
— Frederick Buechner
You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.
— Eugene H. Peterson, The Message Remix
The foolish of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of god is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that may not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called, but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath choses the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. And bade things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
God wants to use you in spite of your weaknesses. Of God chose to use perfect people only, He’d have no one to use
— Joel Osteen
The fatted calf, the best Scotch, the hoedown could all have been his too, any time he asked for them except that he never thought to ask for them because he was too busy trying cheerlessly and religiously to earn them.
— Frederick Buechner, Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale
All love tends to become like that which it loves. God loved man; therefore He became man. For nine months her own body was the natural Eucharist, in which God shared communion with human life, thus preparing for that greater Eucharist when human life would commune with the Divine. Mary’s joy was to form Christ in her own body; her joy now is to form Christ in our souls. In this Mystery, we pray to become pregnant with the Christ spirit, giving Him new lips with which He may speak of His Father, new hands with which He may feed the poor, and a new heart with which He may love everyone, even enemies.
— Fulton J. Sheen
A righteous husband is a responsible husband.
— Habeeb Akande
Wide is the gate and broad is the path that leads to destruction and many go that way
— Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become a part of everything... they become the Soul of the World.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
I don't mean to mock the gods, but Freyja seems to me a bitch.- Hjalti Skjeggjason
— Robert Ferguson, The Hammer And The Cross: A New History Of The Vikings
They said, "Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?
— Qur'an 2 30
Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
I'll never be a non-stumbler. I'll be a forgiven stumbler, but never a non-stumbler.
— TobyMac
The "war" is being fought along the line between sin and righteousness in every family. It is being fought along the line between truth and falsehood in every school... Between justice and injustice in every legislature... Between integrity and corruption in every office... Between love and hate in every ethnic group... Between pride and humility in every sport... Between the beautiful and the ugly in every art... Between right doctrine and wrong doctrine in every church... Between sloth and diligence between coffee breaks. It is not a waste to fight the battle for truth and faith and love on any of these fronts.
— John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life
He (God) is right and always has been, because in reality God is only love.
— Deepak Chopra, Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism
We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule, unimportant, And others, large and incriminating. But they are the same. Only God Has enough of the story to judge our souls.
— Sarah McCoy, The Baker's Daughter
Our prayers can go where we cannot...there are no borders, no prison walls, no doors that are closed to us when we pray.
— Brother Andrew, And God Changed His Mind
If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will begin to expand in your life. Bit by bit, like a mosaic, disparate fragments of grace will merge to form a complete picture. Eventually this picture will replace the ore threatening one you have carried around inside you since infancy.
— Deepak Chopra, Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism
Commit yourself to the possibility that everything you see around you is far less real than God. You want to see the truth "with all your heart, with all you soul, and with all your mind," as Jesus says. This is actually a commitment to joy.
— Deepak Chopra, Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism
But I'll tell you a secret. When I want to take God at his word exactly I take a peep out the window at His Creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us every day, without a lot of dubious middle managers.
— Barbara Kingsolver
All our religion is but a false religion, and all our virtues are mere illusions and we ourselves are only hypocrites in the sight of God, if we have not that universal charity for everyone--for the good, and for the bad, for the poor and for the rich, and for all those who do us harm as much as those who do us good.
— John Vianney
through prayer we can reach into the future and with loving hands touch those beyond our reach.
— Brother Andrew
Keep striving, for God gives His hardest battles to His strongest soldiers.
— Habeeb Akande
High expectations I have. In hardness I labor that, fuller joy at the top I may partake. Nevertheless, in vain I toil. And then, friends'and people's reproach I become, because of my drowning hopes that keeps me out of the circle of richies and honor. I'm the distance they keep like plague, because I have no physical wealth and glamour like them. But in all my stony falls and griefs, the word of restoration in the blood given to me upon the altar of salvation, I cling. For in the end, mercy will attend my situation and see to my hard labor with crown of great success.
— Darmie O-Lujon
Juliet by Ann Fortier. The Maestro (Chapter5) ... the slight nausea he was feeling must be somewhat near what God was feeling every minute of every day. If indeed He felt anything. He was, after all, a divine being, and it was entirely conceivable that divinity was incompatible with emotion. If not, then the Maestro sincerely pitied God, for the history of mankind was nothing more than a long tale of tears.
— Anne Fortier
The life of a human being on this earth is very short - the years fly by - and the opportunity is past - forever. You know that the ONLY REASON for a human being's life on this earth is to attain to the Knowledge of God - all else is nothing, all else passes away as a wind passes away.
— Violette Nakhjavani, The Maxwells of Montreal, Early Years 1870 - 1922
Witchcraft isn't about picking up a book, and asking forgiveness.. or learning about spirituality through the words of others. What you learn from those books are the opinions of other people, and not your own. If this is what you believe then you are not an individual. Witchcraft is about accepting that YOU are responsible for the choices that YOU have made, and YOU teaching YOURSELF to make the right choices. Its about learning through YOUR OWN opinions, YOUR OWN life lessons, YOUR OWN inner self, and by doing so.. BECOME an individual.
— Carla VanKoughnett
... the slight nausea he was feeling must be somewhat neat what God was feeling every minute of every day. If indeed He felt anything. He was, after all, a divine being, and it was entirely conceivable that divinity was incompatible with emotion. If not, then the Maestro sincerely pitied God, for hte history of mankind was nothing more than a long tale of tears. (From "Juliet" thought by The Maestro. Chapter 5)
— Ann Fortier
True religion is not just in the creed you profess, but its also in the life you lead.
— Carrie J. Keaton
Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.
— Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses
I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.
— Primo Levi, If This Is a Man / The Truce
A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.
— Roman Payne, The Wanderess
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.
— John Quincy Adams
The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
No man is an island, entire of itself.
— John Donne, No man is an island – A selection from the prose
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
— Molière
Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so manifest – disdain for beauty, execration of literature. I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it.
— Gustave Flaubert
Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation over and see if there’s a doorway somewhere. I think most people eventually do look for the doorway and stop bumping into the wall
— Robert Anton Wilson
A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma... It's about integrity
— Richard Paul Evans, The Letter
Shall we their fond pageant see?Lord, what fools these mortals be!
— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile worm; depository of truth, and sewer of error and doubt; the glory and refuse of the universe.
— Blaise Pascal, Pensées
If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.
— Sharon Shinn, Jenna Starborn
Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be applied, unless super is taken merely as a superlative prefix. For it is man who is, in contrast to fairies, supernatural; whereas they are natural, far more natural than he. Such is their doom.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, Tolkien on Fairy-stories
I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is always greater than the interest or the understanding of my auditors. You see, there is one very good thing about mankind; the mediocre masses make very few demands of the mediocrities of a higher order, submitting stupidly and cheerfully to their guidance
— Alfred de Vigny, Stello
Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.
— Sherman Alexie
God knows I tried my best to learn the ways of this world, even had inklings we could be glorious; but after all that's happened, the inkles ain't easy anymore. I mean - what kind of fucken life is this?
— D.B.C. Pierre, Vernon God Little
Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
— Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots
Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.
— W.H. Auden
Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
How wonderful to find in living creatures the same substance as those which make up minerals. Nevertheless they felt a sort of humiliation at the idea that their persons contained phosphorous like matches, albumen like white of egg, hydrogen gas like street lamps.
— Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pecuchet
Everything is boring, boredom is the other epidemic which is making Europe ripe for decline. Boredom is the end product of each and every civilization. It is the arteriosclerosis of the great thinking peoples. The moment always arrives where even God, whether he’s called Zeus, Zebaoth or Zoroaster, has finished creating the universe and asks: “What’s the point of it, actually?” He yawns and chucks it aside. Mankind does the same with civilization. Boredom is the condition of a people which no longer believes but all the same is doing just fine. Boredom is when every clock in the country is predestined to be correct. When the same naive flowers blossom again in the month of March. When every day the deaths of good family fathers are announced in the papers. When a war breaks out in the Balkans. When poems go on about the stars. Boredom is a symptom of aging. Boredom is the diagnosis that talent and virtue are slowly being spent. Boredom is the life-long determination to a form of being which has worn itself out.
— Iwan Goll
Error regarding life necessary to life. - Every belief in the value and dignity of life rests on false thinking; it is possible only through the fact that empathy with the universal life and suffering of mankind is very feebly developed in the individual. Even those rarer men who think beyond themselves at all have an eye, not for this universal life, but for fenced-off portions of it. If one knows how to keep the exceptions principally in view, I mean the greatly gifted and pure of soul, takes their production for the goal of world-evolution and rejoices in the effects they in turn produce, one may believe in the value of life, because the one is overlooking all other men: thinking falsely, that is to say. And likewise if, though one does keep in view all mankind, one accords validity only to one species of drives, the less egoistical, and justifies them in face of all the others, then again one can hope for something of mankind as a whole and to this extent believe in the value of life: thus, in this case too, through falsity of thinking. Whichever of these attitudes one adopts, however, one is by adopting in an exception among men. The great majority endure life without complaining overmuch; they believe in the value of existence, but they do so precisely because each of them exists for himself alone, refusing to step out of himself as those exceptions do: everything outside themselves they notice not at all or at most as a dim shadow. Thus for the ordinary, everyday man the value of life rests solely on the fact that regards himself more highly than he does the world. The great lack of imagination from which he suffers means he is unable to feel his way into other beings and thus he participates as little as possible in their fortunes and sufferings. He, on the other hand, who really could participate in them would have to despair of the value of life; if he succeeded in encompassing and feeling within himself the total consciousness of mankind he would collapse with a curse on existence - for mankind has as a whole no goal, and the individual man when he regards its total course cannot derive from it any support or comfort, but must be reduced to despair. If in all he does he has before him the ultimate goallessness of man, his actions acquire in his own eyes the character of useless squandering. But to feel thus squandered, not merely as an individual fruits but as humanity as a whole, in the way we behold the individual fruits of nature squandered, is a feeling beyond all other feelings. - But who is capable of such a feeling? Certainly only a poet: and poets always know how to console themselves.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
Well in those parts (upcountry India) they have were-tigers, or think they have, and I must say that in this case, so far as sworn and uncontested evidence went, they had every ground for thinking so. However, as we gave up witchcraft prosecutions about three hundred years ago, we don’t like to have other people keeping on our discarded practices; it doesn’t seem respectful to our mental and moral position.
— Saki
[Pope] Clement waved his hands in irritation as if to dismiss the very idea. "The world is crumbling into ruin. Armies are marching. Men and women are dying everywhere, in huge numbers. Fields are abandoned and towns deserted. The wrath of the Lord is upon us and He may be intending to destroy the whole of creation. People are without leaders and direction. They want to be given a reason for this, so they can be reassured, so they will return to their prayers and their obiediences. All this is going on, and you are concerned about the safety of two Jews?
— Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio
There is only one class of men, the privileged class
— Albert Camus
He blinked at the sun and dreamt that perhaps he might snare it and spare it as it went down to its resting place amidst the distant hills.
— H.G. Wells, The World Set Free
Incurable diseases will eventually force mankind to justify disruptive nanotech and genetic engineering.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
Ah! I wish I had the courage to work for the debasement of my contemporaries. What good work it would be to defile their daughters: to insinuate something obscene into the infantile hands which caress each paternal beard and cheek; to poison them, even at the risk of perishing ourselves; to do as those Spanish monks did, who drank death in order that they might persuade the French rabble which had violated their monastery to do likewise.
— Rémy de Gourmont, The Angels of Perversity
A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist
— Fernand Léger
The chaos on our planet, the plundering of resources, and the division of humanity are not the true works of any kind of man. They are the work of those who conquer over man.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Iniquity it is; but pass the can.	My lad, no pair of kings our mothers bore;Our only portion is the estate of man:	We want the moon, but we shall get no more. (Last Poems, IX)
— A.E. Housman, The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman
If you're looking for an enemy, stop imagining it's one group or another. All mankind is your enemy, including yourself.
— T.J. Kirk
I am a man and all that affects mankind concerns me.
— Bhagat Singh
For man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. This you may say of man when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate, man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back. This you may say and know it and know it. This you may know when the bombs plummet out of the black planes on the market place, when prisoners are stuck like pigs, when the crushed bodies drain filthily in the dust. You may know it in this way. If the step were not being taken, if the stumbling-forward ache were not alive, the bombs would not fall, the throats would not be cut. Fear the time when the bombs stop falling while the bombers live- for every bomb is proof that the spirit has not died. And fear the time when the strikes stop while the great owners live- for every little beaten strike is proof that the step is being taken. And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is the foundation of Manself, and this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.
— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Man is broken down in many places because of bitterness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You can satiate a Man's hunger but never his greed!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
It is amazing what God can do with what seems so small
—  like you and I!
Zarathustra answered: “I love mankind.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
He'd have improved if you'd not givenHim a mere glimmer of the light in heaven;He calls it Reason, and it has only increasedHis power to be beastlier than a beast.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If mankind was playing a baseball game, he would still be choosing his lineup after the game was over.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Out of his zestful study of Man, from Thucydides to the Encyclopaedists, from Seneca to Rousseau, he had confirmed into an unassailable conviction his earliest conscious impressions of the general insanity of his own species.
— Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
Ponder upon the many misgivings of man and you shall be eternally in the state of pondering. -
— Rohit Caliber
Kingdom laws are inherent to the native of mankind
— Sunday Adelaja
Mankind Needs To Fit Into God’s Agenda So As To Fulfill Purpose
— Sunday Adelaja
For every woman you know who has been given substandard treatment by her parents, used by her friend or boyfriend, abused by her husband, discriminated by her employers and ridiculed by society, I know a man who has been burdened with family responsibility since childhood, humiliated by his girlfriend, bullied by his employers, pushed by society and harassed by his wife. Everybody is fighting their own battle.
— Sanjeev Himachali
In the midst of combat, we learned a great deal about mankind and its many different races, creeds and beliefs.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
I have lived long enough to learn that the worst kind of beings, are human beings.
— MJ Iba
Do not despair at being an unsung hero. Always keep in your heart the desire to do what is right for mankind.
— Maejima Hisoka
For this can be said of men in general: that they are ungrateful, fickle, hypocrites and dissemblers, avoiders of dangers, greedy for gain; and while you benefit them, they are entirely yours, offering you their blood, their goods, their life, their children,...when need is far away, but when you actually become needy, they turn away. (translated by Wayne A. Rebhorn)
— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
The mankind doesn't deserv the title "KIND", after all they aren't kind they search ways to destroy you if this is understand as a kind, I don't know where to go.
— Deyth Banger
Mankind is busily manufacturing its way into extinction.
— Steven Magee
There is no particular merit in being nice to one's fellow man... We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is a result of our emotions - love apathy, charity of malice - and what part is predetermines by the constant power play among individuals. True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buries from view), consists of attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental débâcle, a débâcle so fundamental all others stem from it.
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Come, let me know whether thou art acreature of good or not.' And he replied: `I am a man.
— Chrétien de Troyes
[T]he source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being namely, that his errors are corrigible.
— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
The average sendentary man of our time who is at all suggestible must emerge from this chapter believing that his chances of surviving a combination of instinct, complexes, reflexes, glands, sex, and present-day traffic conditions are about equal to those of a one-legged man trying to get out of a labyrinth.
— James Thurber
Religious fervor has been known to lead mankind down some pretty disastrous paths in the past.
— Jim Starlin, The Infinity Crusade: Volume 1
Mankind have angels and devils, this thing is called balance!
— Deyth Banger
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.
— Philip Larkin, High Windows
There must be a bad chromosome somewhere in man that urges him to wound that which he can't conquer, deface that which is more beautiful, misunderstand and befoul the work of another.
— Bill Murray
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is
— Bhagavad Gita
It did not occur to Adya that like being competitive during exam times, while being competitive in matters of life also the boys would actually tend to ditch their female counterparts in little little matters and get things their way.
— Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word
This one word “Love” has revolutionized the whole planet in an evolutionary way. Without this, none of us might have been born.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love Sutra: The Neuroscientific Manual of Love
I like my fellow man, but I also realize he carried a good measure of the Old Nick in him and he can find a good excuse for almost any kind of wrongdoing or mischief.
— Louis L'Amour, Galloway
Every person alive thinks they are the center of the universe, that they are everything, when in fact each of us is less than nothing.
— Eleanor Morse, White Dog Fell from the Sky
One may deal with things without love...but you cannot deal with men without it...It cannot be otherwise, because natural love is the fundamental law of human life.
— Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
... when I see kings lying by those who deposed them,... or holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
— Joseph Addison
A god who becomes a man shows mercy.A man who becomes a god does not.
— Anonymous
The worst threat to man is man himself
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Communism is the friend of the ideologue, and the enemy of mankind.
— S. Thomas Kaza
Love for one another will create peaceful co-existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Everyone wants to save Man, but no one wants to know about men.
— José Saramago, Skylight
Yes, it's comforting to know, when you think about it, that only man can be a bastard
— Stanisław Lem
Wild animals bite the hand that feeds them. Clever people consume the entire body.
— Stefan Emunds
As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he'll look for his lessons.
— Harper Lee
Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are the most apt to get out of order.
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
MankindMen, said the Devil,are good to their brothers:they don’t want to mendtheir own ways, but each other's.
— Piet Hein
The hardest thing on earth is to know the ways of men and still manage to be in good spirits.
— Stefan Emunds
On his misfit globe he has outlasted the mammoth and the pterodactyl, but he has never got the upper hand of bacteria and the insects.
— James Thurber
It is quite obvious that the human race has made a queer mess of life on this planet. But as a people we probably harbor seeds of goodness that have lain for a long time waiting to sprout when conditions are right. Man's curiosity, his relentlessness, his inventiveness, his ingenuity have led him into deep trouble. We can only hope that these same traits will enable him to claw his way out.
— E.B. White
Man is not valuable because he loves God. Man is valuable because God loves him.
— Helmut Thielicke
TO ALL MANKINDSpeak kind wordsto mankindand the unkindwill attack you.Speak common senseusing any of your senses,and you will be attacked bythe senseless.Speak truth,and you will be attacked bythe untruthful.Speak about absolutely nothing,and absolutely nothingwill speak back,but then nothing at allwill ever change.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
When a man looks into a mirror and can no longer see his own reflection... he has lost his way.
— Brian Leslie, Deception Of A Witness
They would come with languages that sounded like dog bark; with a childish hunger for animal fur. They would forever fence land, ship whole trees to faraway countries, take any women for quick pleasure, ruin soil, befoul sacred places and worship a dull, unimaginative god. They let their hogs browse the ocean shore turning it into dunes of sand where nothing green can ever grow again. Cut loose from the earth's soul, they insisted on purchase of its soil, and like all orphans they were insatiable. It was their destiny to chew up the world and spit out a horribleness that would destroy all primary peoples.
— Toni Morisson
Service for one another, service for mankind,
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!