Human Quotes
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Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, these human testimonies which exist to confirm it will not be vain if, as secondary aids to our feebleness, they follow that chief and highest testimony. But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.
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What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily experiences of human life on earth. My life depends on engaging the most ordinary physical activities with the most exquisite attention I can give them. My life depends on ignoring all touted distinctions between the secular and the sacred, the physical and the spiritual, the body and the soul. What is saving my life now is becoming more fully human, trusting that there is no way to God apart from real life in the real world.
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Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.
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The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.
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Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.
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Vulnerability isn't a bad thing. Everyone's vulnerable and it only makes you human.
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God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.
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With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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As you are touching the human life and human kind, any work is always relevant.
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To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.
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To cheapen the lives of any group of men [or women], cheapens the lives of all men [and women], even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.
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There are things that the horse did for me that a human couldn't have done.
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The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.
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Our environments are always both human and other than human.
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Rhesus monkeys as well as human adults and older children living in a remote Amazon village have been given comparison and addition tasks using arrays of dots, and they show the same abilities we find in 5- year- old Boston children.
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I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.
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The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.
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I'd love to live nonbiologically and move about at the speed of light and be in communication with a million people at once and create works of art that are grand and sophisticated and very human at the same time so all these types of things.
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It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country
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He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.
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What is it about us human beings that we can’t let go of lost things?
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I thought what a terrible thing I had done; not the political aspect of it because maybe that was correct but it didn't matter now. Correct or not, all that mattered was the human side of things. I felt no political cause was worth hurting another human being for.
