Guy Finley Quotes

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

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.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

I like to think that I'm trying to choose love over most things, but that's my choice.

Work at being a humble person.

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

I should have been kinder when I was younger.

I think I am a very kind person. I think I'm joyful, but I could be kinder and I could be more joyful. I do believe peace is a state of grace, and not the absence of violence.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Love is so unconditional; love liberates; love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

I have become a person who can focus more on love.

Self pity is the worst possible disease that can affect mankind. And if we do just the opposite, which is love, then we have God's feelings with us at all times.

My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got

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

When I look at the Gospel, I see how it is speaking to me at this time. I see how to be to others and it helps.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

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.