Girolamo Savonarola Quotes

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.

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

The virtue of Love is nothing and all, or that Nothing visible out of which All Things proceed. Its power is through All Things; its height is as high as God; its greatness is as great as God.

We in South Carolina love our country, love our God, love our state, and we also love each other.

God is love, and love is love.

Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.

Loving God is never separate from loving our brothers and sisters. It's always the same.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

Unless generosity of spirit prevails among men, there can never be upon earth an ideal life.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

The secular mind is God's huge gift to us, for us to use for the sake of one another.

No matter where you're from, no matter what religion you practice, your ethnicity, race, or anything else - what is it that can bring us together as people? It is, what we call in Hawaii, aloha... sincere, deep love and respect for other people as children of God.

Look at every Zion society from ancient times to present, and you find at its center love for others.

I always sacrifice myself for the love of all my people.

The religion of humanity is love.

Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive.

My religion is, to live through Love.

Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others

Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.

No one has seen God, but as we love one another, God lives in us.