“That in these times every serious person should not in his heart have felt some difliculty with the doctrines of the incarnation, I cannot helieve. We are not as we were. When Christianity was first published, the imagination of mankind presented the relation of heaven to earth very differently from what it does now.” ShouldFirstsHeartPersonsDoeEarthHeavenFeltImaginationChristianityMankindSeriousRelationDoctrineIncarnationSerious Person Author:James Anthony Froude
“Mankind has one great habit, a bad habit: To create rules on behalf of God! Unless A God appears on the sky and says 'Here are the rules,' do not take any rule serious! Remember that in this universe, there is no port that you can take refuge apart from the reason and the science!” ReasonRememberScienceUniverseSkyMankindSeriousHabitRefugeBehalfPortBad Habits Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“This festival... the festival of Makar Sankranti... is our way of showing love towards nature. While global warming poses a serious threat to the world and mankind, this message of love for our environment is extremely essential.” WorldWayEnvironmentMankindSeriousEssentialsMessagesIndiaThreatClimate ChangeGlobal WarmingFestivalsOur EnvironmentShowing Love Author:Narendra Modi
“People have to take seriously the threat coming from asteroids and what it represents. As Chelyabinsk reminded us, we have to take asteroids as a serious scientific concern, as well as a concern for protection of mankind and survival of the planet. This is not some kook policy. It's the protection of the interests of every single individual life on this planet.” PeopleWellsIndividualInterestMankindPolicyPlanetsSeriousSurvivalConcernThreatProtectionAsteroidsIndividual Life Author:Kesha Rogers
“Those who would administer [charity] wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. It were better for mankind that the millions of the rich were thrown into the sea than spent to encourage the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy. Of every thousand dollars spent in so-called charity today, it is probable that nine hundred and fifty dollars is unwisely spent - so spent, indeed, as to produce the very evils which it hopes to mitigate or cure.” TodayEvilRaceMillionsRichWiseSeaMankindProduceSeriousThousandHundredDollarsCharityObstaclesImprovementNineCuresFiftyThrownBeing WiseUnworthy Author:Andrew Carnegie