You don't need another human being to make your life complete, but let's be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn't see them as disasters in your soul but cracks to put their love into is the most calming thing in this world.
It's not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.
It is a kind of theological folly to suppose that God has made the entire world just for human beings; or to suppose that God is interested in only one of the millions of species that inhabit God's good earth.
When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us...
Nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity.
We need the courage to create ourselves daily, to be bodacious enough to create ourselves daily — as Christians, as Jews, as Muslims, as thinking, caring, laughing, loving human beings. I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into...
As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.
It is clear that the myth of the Chosen Nation has been a powerful theme in American life. It is also clear that this myth can serve good and constructive purposes, especially when yoked to the notion of national covenant, for "covenant" implies responsibilities to...
Gratitude is, perhaps, the most immediate and most primal of all spiritual affections--that which makes every human being a priest. Feeling grateful empowers the soul.
Those wild-eyed crazy love activists Disguised as normal human beings Betting their lives on their belief that serving others helps heal the brokenness So alive in the adventure of Jesus they are Making all of us better as they go Grateful for every one of them...