Greg Boyle Quotes

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

There are many reasons for kindness, and religion is just one of them.

Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.

The most important thing on Earth is for all of us to make this sentence true: Compassion is what people do.

In my view, the best of humanity is in our exercise of empathy and compassion. It's when we challenge ourselves to walk in the shoes of someone whose pain or plight might seem so different than yours that it's almost incomprehensible.

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

I can assuredly say that it's my life's mission to love all people.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.

I admire people who just do the right thing, not looking to screw people up. I love all people.

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

I think one of the best words in the English language is 'compassion.' I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.

One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature.

We have to bring the humanity and compassion back.

Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.