Barack Obama Quotes

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.

Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.

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

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.

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

I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.

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.

When we love like Jesus does, lives change for the better.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

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.

My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.

I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere.

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

… true evangelical faith ... clothes the naked; feeds the hungry; consoles the afflicted; shelters the miserable; aids and consoles all the oppressed; returns good for evil; serves those that injure it; prays for those that persecute it.

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.

Here are three things you can do, even when you feel like there isn't a friend in sight. You can be curious, you can be clean, and you can be Christlike.

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

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.

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?

It doesn't matter what tradition you come from, what religion you have or don't, what culture you were brought up in or what God you ascribe to: Faith is worthwhile as it helps us to be kinder, more generous, more loving and forgiving people.

I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.