“Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask moral questions. For example, just because we have the economic muscle to buy up vast amounts of the world's oil, does that give us the right to do so? When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?” WorldGivingHeartDoeRunningAbleSpiritualHumanityAsksWaterSimplePoorCompassionMoralCuttingEconomicExampleBrokenAmountDemandEatingMassIndiaBlameDistanceCancerOilMusclesFarmersConsumerismBleedingPumpsOverconsumptionGasolineGallons Author:Richard J. Foster
“I know that there is one God in heaven, the Father of all humanity, and heaven is therefore one. I know that there is one sun in the sky, which gives light to all the world. As there is unity in God, and unity in the light, so is there unity in the principles of freedom. Wherever it is broken, wherever a shadow is cast upon the sunny rays of the sun of liberty, there is always danger of free principles everywhere in the world.” KnowsWorldGivingLightHumanityFatherHeavenLibertyPrinciplesSunSkyDangerBrokenShadowUnityCastsRaysSunny Author:Lajos Kossuth
“College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.” IfsWould BeHumanityGamesLossInterestingStudentsFootballCollegeBrokenArmsHumorousIncreaseLegsNecksFacultyCollege FootballTrustees Author:H. L. Mencken
“But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.” HumanityBrokenWalkingSightHidingWholenessWalking AwayReciprocal Author:Bryan Stevenson
“God has chosen little nations as the vessels by which He carries His choicest wines to the lips of humanity to rejoice their hearts, to exalt their vision, to strengthen their faith, and if we had stood by when two little nations [Belgium and Serbia] were being crushed and broken by the brutal hands of barbarians, our shame would have rung down the everlasting ages.” IfsHeartLittlesTwoWarHandsAgeHumanityNationsVisionBrokenShameWineLipsChosenCarrieRejoiceBrutalEverlastingVesselCrushedBarbariansBelgiumSerbia Author:David Lloyd George
“It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.” MenFirstsLastsHumanitySilenceGonePathCuttingHe ManBrokenSolitudeIceStreamsLeapSilence IsFrozenSocial ChangePioneersSwimmer Book:Woman and Labor Source: Woman and Labor
“We can no longer speak of a bourne from which no traveler e'er returns. The middle wall of partition has been broken down and the boundary become but an invisible line by the resurrection of Christ. That He who died has been raised again and ever lives in the form of a complete humanity is the fundamental fact in the revelation of the Christian doctrine of immortality.” Has BeensFactsChristianFormHumanitySpeakChristLinesMiddleBrokenWallReturnDiedDown AndFundamentalsRaisedBoundariesInvisibleDoctrineImmortalityRevelationsResurrectionTravelerEasterBroken DownPartitionBourneChristian Doctrine Author:B. B. Warfield
“The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill.” LifeTwoCountryHumanityDiesSkyBrokenBlueHillsBrownBlue SkyHensCountry LifeCartwheels Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask the moral questions.” AbleSpiritualHumanityAsksMoralBrokenEatingMassDistanceCancerConsumptionBleedingOverconsumption Author:Richard J. Foster
“I think some industries are so far behind the rest of humanity, in the way they see characters and cast shows. Once those walls get broken down, it changes everything.” ThinkingWayCharacterShowsHumanityBehindsBrokenWallIndustryCastsBroken Down Author:Josh Groban
“I think we need to be human. Nobody is objective. We need to go in and be human - especially today, especially given everything that's happening around us, especially given the divides between populations that are growing and what's at stake in terms of our collective humanity, and the fact that our moral compass is broken.” ThinkingTodayHumanityTermMoralBrokenCompassMoral Compass Author:Arwa Damon
“Every child, every person needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated. Only when all of our weaknesses are accepted as part of our humanity can our negative, broken self-images be transformed.” KnowsNeedsChildrenPersonsSelfJoyHumanitySourceBrokenWeaknessNegativeAcceptedTransformed Book:Becoming Human Source: Becoming Human