“...torna-se difícil acreditar Nele quando o céu e a terra podem chegar a se explicar por si mesmos.”
“From what I’ve seen, the world is deeply, profoundly broken (even my atheist friends allow this), and every human I’ve ever gotten to know turns out to have issues. We’re inconsistent, in certain circumstances untrustworthy, and we don’t even live up to our own standards, let alone God’s.”
Source: Blessed Are the Misfits: Great News for Believers who are Introverts, Spiritual Strugglers, or Just Feel Like They're Missing Something
“Err on the side of generosity. Not because you want something in return. Banking on reciprocity is a recipe for manipulation. Be generous because you’re human and you care.”
“The moral contradictions of our ancestry should not prevent us from reaching a realistic assessment of who we are. When we do that, high hopes are still possible.”
Source: The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution
“We like to say "I changed my mind," but the human mind alters its direction so rapidly and constantly, we might as well say "My mind changed me.”
Source: The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice
“My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There's no version of God that can help us if we lose that.”
Source: Scythe
“Nothing will exempt me from the pain of being human.”
Source: No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
“One of the main goals of culture and religion is to make us fail to realize or remember that humans, too, are animals.”
“Perhaps being human is repulsive to those who are incapable of being kind.”
“In a world full of monsters that lie and destroy, I wish to be human.”