A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It’s psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I’m always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

Who’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

The ‚Third World‘ is a term I don’t like very much because we’re all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.