Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness. —Reinhold Niebuhr More about this quote Tags: love life history hope beauty accomplishment forgiveness change faith Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All birth is unwilling. —Pearl S. Buck More about this quote Tags: birth willingness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. —Upton Sinclair More about this quote Tags: understanding prejudice learning knowledge money salary Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good. —Barbara Grizzuti Harrison More about this quote Tags: evil morality good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed that easily. —Dorothy Day More about this quote Tags: attention sainthood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We should remember that it is easy and foolish to sneer at the mistakes or barbarities of remote ages. —Hermann Hesse More about this quote Tags: history time mistakes perception perspective Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the next voyage of the Mayflower, after she carried the Pilgrims, she was employed in transporting a cargo of slaves from Africa. —Nathaniel Hawthorne More about this quote Tags: history USA slavery irony Mayflower Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both. —Louis D. Brandeis More about this quote Tags: democracy equality inequality USA wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't mourn, organize. —Joe Hill More about this quote Tags: change organization mourning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
May we remember, as we log on, that half the world's people have never used a telephone, and recall, as we chatter, that most of those around us have no chance to speak or move as they choose. May we recall that more than half a million beings live without food, and that as many children live amidst poverty and war. —Pico Iyer More about this quote Tags: technology privilege gratitude memory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is." —Kurt Vonnegut More about this quote Tags: happiness nice pleasant Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What is forgiven is usually well remembered. —Louis Dudek More about this quote Tags: memory forgiveness remembering Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving. —Bernard Meltzer More about this quote Tags: love giving generosity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room. —William Hazlitt More about this quote Tags: prejudice accomplishment help custom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines. —Henry J. Tillman More about this quote Tags: culture airlines traveling Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email