Quotes about Human

Then she fell into that rapture of self-sacrifice, identifying herself with a God who was sacrificed, which gives to so many human souls their deepest bliss.

I knew from experience that this statement was true, for I myself had been searching for years to discover a practical, working handbook on human relations.

Speech is silvern, Silence is golden; Speech is human, Silence is divine.

He wanted a feeling of importance; and as long as Mr. Parsons argued with him, he got his feeling of importance by loudly asserting his authority. But as soon as his importance was admitted and the argument stopped and he was permitted to expand his ego, he became a sympathetic and kindly human being.

If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.

Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I hear the sound I love. The sound of the human voice. I hear all sounds running together.

We're all human and disagreements come up even between two people who are deeply in love.

The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into the human economy. It was thus possible for traditional cultures to conceive that to work is to pray. (pg. 258, The Idea of a Local Economy)

All good human work remembers its history.

Forgiveness offered -especially when so undeserved - cuts chains off the human heart that no other power in any universe anywhere can rattle much less break....love did what hatred can not and never will.

Hate is a powerful weapon. But it is powerless when it comes to cutting chains off the human heart.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.