Judas betrayed Jesus. Lady Red betrayed John Dillinger. Those things happen.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

To be is to do.

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

It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

All men are equal before fish.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There’s no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies.

Do you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real – it happened when he was in Hell.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

I gave ‚em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.