He taught that treating one's
fellow human beings well was as important as respecting the Gods, and he emphasized the importance of respecting parents.
«By teaching people in [China] to love little animals, maybe we can help them to love
their fellow human beings better,» he said.
Not exact matches
Be it a joke or a nugget of information, it reads
better when it comes from a
fellow human being.
If there
is a God and he
is truly just, he will judge me based on my merits of helping
fellow humans and making the world a
better place to live, not how many times I dropped to my knees, clapped my hands together and chanted prayers.
I also developed a very strong sense of fellowship and the inherent
good that
is the most common thread and stabilizing factor among my
fellow human beings, despite their faith or lack thereof.
As in liberal Protestantism, the Father
was Good; the Son,
being human, even
better and more philanthropic (
well, the Jews and Muslims dropped this bit); and keeping God's commands involved less tradition or ritual and more love of our
fellow - men, all men
being sons of the one Father.
i
am good because i love life and my
fellow humans beings and not for any reward in the afterlife..
I've long known that such stories
are our
best medium for forging connections with our
fellow human beings.
It seems, perhaps, if we can find some way of seeing past what appears to
be incongruity and instead perceive one another primarily as a
fellow human being holding to
being born with dignity and equality then we might
be in a
good place?
When you make a career of
being intolerant toward your
fellow human beings as
well as American citizens (as Mr Sprigg has), a response of intolerance shouldn't come as a surprise.
I mean the burning passion of lived awareness that we occupy a precarious existence on this planet together with the soil and its flowers, the water and its fishes, the air and its birds, the fire and energy sources; that our
fellow human beings are truly brothers and sisters with whom it
is better always to make love - justice than war; and that gentleness lasts longer and touches more deeply than other kinds of power.
That makes our species feel
better about ourselves, and we hope that when we
are the ones going through the tragedy that our
fellow humans will do the same for us.
thank you... this concept
is seemingly so foreign to the religious... you do
good because it gives you the
best feeling in the world to help
fellow human beings... no strings attached, no heaven and hell stuff... just helping out someone who needs help... the
human thing to do...
Hence, a fundamental religious virtue
is humility, born of the persuasion that no man and no
human institution can rightly claim the authority of God himself, but that all
are under an authority toward which each may at
best help to direct his
fellow seekers after truth.
They actually have more love for their
fellow human beings and try to make things here on earth much
better for ALL not just Christens.
I just understand that Christians
are no
better and no worse in their behavior towards their
fellow humans.
The latter part of this previous statement
is important because even my rights as a
human being are by definition limited by the very fact that my
fellow human beings have rights as
well.
Even when our enemies
are so corrupt and evil that there
is no discernible sign of
good in any of them, we can at least recognize that they
are fellow human beings and children of God — however much they have violated His commands — and love and pray for them on that basis alone.
Until we figure out that the only real truth out there
is that we
are all equally
human and treat each other as we would want to
be treated as a
fellow human being, we will continue to stupidly hate and kill over myths and stories and eventually utterly destroy ourselves over who has the
better imaginary friend.
-- Even though it
's only a week and a half old, in this experiment, those who
are deeply religious and claim to
be «
Good people of God» who should love all their
fellow humans have removed the income from this man
's life with complete disregard for the
well -
being of his family members as
well.
Humans crave order and power over their environment and their
fellow creatures and what
better way than to threaten them with unprovable stories and then kill them when the don't acquiesce — because YOU
are right an god
is on YOUR side.
This
is an alienating isolation, for it
is both «a natural law and constitutional principle of the
human being» to cooperate with his
fellow man to promote the common
good.
God treats us as sons and daughters, providing attractions from his or her circumambient love and usually under creaturely incognitos (including above all our
fellow humans), which can save us from ourselves and set us on the path toward fuller shared existence here and now, with the promise that our achievements, when they
are for
good, will
be received by God.
One does not need to
be Christian or religious to
be a
good person to their
fellow humans.
The main difference
is that atheists expect no divine reward; they purely do it for the
good of their
fellow human.
We can, if we feel we must, for the sake of our prior assumptions, strive to convince ourselves that all of that
is just so much maudlin anthropomorphism; but we might just as
well try to convince ourselves that the kindred feelings and thoughts we fancy we perceive in our
fellow human beings are just so much mawkish «idiomorphism.»
As an aside, yes a much
better tribute to Mother Teresa would
be to rededicate ourselves to helping our
fellow human beings.
The system of checks and balances they built in the Constitution
was formed not only by the recognition that
good citizens may differ over the proper course of action, but also, at least in part, by the Biblical understanding of
humans as fallible and prone to wrong - doing, and therefore frequently in need of some healthy opposition from their
fellows.
How we treat our
fellow human beings is not a peripheral issue, sidelined by supposedly «
good theology.»
But they proved themselves to
be far
better than the secular Western hedonists as
fellow human beings.
So it does not go against the conceptual or existential limits of the meaning of «body» for him - and him alone - to extend himself physically as
well as spiritually to all his
fellow human beings throughout time and space.
If, on the other hand, conscience
is rediscovered as the place in which to listen to truth and
good, the place of responsibility before God and before
fellow human beings - in other words, the bulwark against all forms of tyranny - then there
is hope for the future.
I share Father Berrigan's repugnance toward those in high intellectual and religious places who apologize for or ignore gross historical evil, and I have insisted that Auschwitz bears a commandment to Jews also not to destroy their
fellow human beings, that the necessity for Jewish survival, illuminated and commanded by the Holocaust, can not justify the principle that it
is better to do than to suffer injustice — that this goes completely counter to the spirit and teaching of the Jewish religio - ethical tradition.
But, as Pope Paul said on his visit to India in 1964, Christians also have «the duty of knowing
better» the hundreds of millions of
fellow human beings who
are Moslems, Hindus, Buddhists, or followers of other faiths, «recognizing all the
good they possess, not only in their history and civilization, but also in the heritage of moral and religious values which they possess and preserve.
So all
human regardless of faith
are good to other
fellow human with exception of few that intends to harm other
human...
We believe that
being of service to our
fellow humans, community, animals, and plants
is a
good investment in our futures and collective happiness.
It consistently reminds me of my mom's sweet, all - forgiving, nourishing love, of her personal sacrifice so that I can
be a dignified individual, as
well as of her tireless effort to instill in me feelings such as compassion and tolerance toward my
fellow human beings.
As he exits that office, he should learn to live
well with his
fellow human beings», he told Kasapa News.
Dr. Teich
is responsible for the Association's activities in science and technology policy (including the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program, the Congressional Science and Engineering
Fellows Program, and a new Research Competitiveness Program) as
well as programs in science and ethics, law, religion, and
human rights, a Program of Dialogue between Science and Religion, and a Center for Science, Technology, and Congress.
Dr. Teich
is responsible for the Association's activities in science and technologypolicy (including the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program, the Congressional Science and Engineering
Fellows Program, and a new Research Competitiveness Program) as
well as programs in science ethics and law,
human rights, a Program of Dialogue between Science and Religion, and a Center for Science, Technology, and Congress.
One possible outcome of dedicating years of hard work would
be winning a Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, but having the personal satisfaction of helping a
fellow human being who
is sick and in need
is the
best fulfillment anyone can have.»
Co-authors of «Top Incomes and
Human Well -
Being Around the World»
are Jan - Emmanuel De Neve, associate professor in economics and strategy at the Said Business School, Oxford University, and Nattavudh Powdthavee, principal research
fellow with the Wellbeing Programme at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics.
Shaw, who
is also a senior research
fellow at the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Columbia University, spoke to a packed auditorium of Columbia Engineering students last spring about how the development of high - speed simulations
is making possible insights into
human biology that could lead to
better understanding of protein behavior and to improvements in drug discovery.
«When I first wrote The Paleo Diet in 2002, my primary intent
was to improve health and
well -
being for my
fellow humans,» says Cordain.
I
am down to the earth and does what
is good in the site of God and my
fellow human human.
What a microcosm for the
good cinephile's experience in 2017 — amidst a struggle to keep away the viruses carried by powerful liars and to dodge the slings & arrows brandished by savages, occasionally we go to the theatre and encounter something sublime, something numinous that reminds us why life
is maybe worth sharing with our
fellow humans.
It may not
be as sophisticated or in tune with the
human condition as the
fellow 1997 releases it
bested for its highest honors (including L.A. Confidential, As
Good As It Gets, and
Good Will Hunting).
Both of these films
are exercises in pure empathy, using as they do the example of the social outcast or outsider (Joseph «The Elephant Man» Merrick and Alvin Straight, respectively) to show us how to
better connect with our
fellow human.
Heroes act on behalf of their
fellow humans — they take risks for the greater
good, often putting their own
well -
being on the line.
He added: «One's hope
is that the screening of these films during the 3rd edition of SICFF can offer children and their parents a basis for a
better understanding of the pain and the suffering of children caught in the dreadful grips of war, and deepen their sense of empathy for their
fellow human beings.»