“To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love,
All pray in their distress:
And to these virtues of delight
Return their thankfulness.
For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love,
Is God, our father dear:
And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love,
Is Man, his child and care.
For Mercy has a human heart,
Pity, a human face:
And Love, the human form divine,
And Peace, the human dress.
Then every man of every clime,
That prays in his distress,
Prays to the human form divine,
Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.
And all must love the human form,
In heathen, Turk, or Jew.
Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell,
There God is dwelling too.”
Source: Songs of Innocence
“It's my love for the people that made me a scientist and a monk (a poet even), not my intellect.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“I have not come to teach you, I have come to love you.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“Till the fire of love engulfs your whole being, the human in you will keep sleeping.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“A homeless humanist with no clothes on their back is far more civilized than a well-dressed bigot.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“So long as you see self and society as separate, you are living a delusion.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“I have placed myself at your feet O Humanity, do what you may with me - love me if you want, kill me if you want, I won't resist, for my life is your keepsake - I live for you and I'll die for you, and when I am gone, your memories of me will give birth to me again and again, till every trace of separation is gone from the world.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“A scholar came to me the other day and asked - how can I be a human being? I replied - by living as nothing and calling everyone our own.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“In our love for the people we are born again, not as petty animals fighting the trivial battles of tribalism, but as genuine humans - humans who can think - humans who can feel - humans who can act.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“To be a human it's necessary to carry out the requirements of civilization and the requirements of civilization are reason and compassion.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude