Dalai Lama Quotes

Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.

Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!

There is such a thing as 'thanks-feeling' - feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.

Where ever the spirit of Christ is known, there is much of good will, of mutual respect, of love and appreciation and kindness.

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

I think that's the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that they have all the answers and more believing in Him.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.

We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.

Let no rank puff up anyone; for faith and love are paramount - the greatest blessings in the world.

Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us.