By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only object of good government.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth so virtue appears from good deeds and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

On the whole human beings want to be good but not too good and not quite all the time.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

In my country of South Africa we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings children of the same God by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

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

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

God exists if only in the form of a meme with high survival value or infective power in the environment provided by human culture.

My dream is to live a good life and be loving be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

God preordained for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice a part of the human race without any merit of their own to eternal salvation and another part in just punishment of their sin to eternal damnation.

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.

God is one but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because like Spinoza's God it won't love us in return.

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

There are matters in the Bible said to be done by the express commandment of God that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.