Josephine Baker Quotes

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

I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.

If men would as fervently seek after love and righteousness as they do after opinions, there would be no strife on earth, and we should be as children of one father, and should need no law or ordinance. For God is not served by any law, but only by obedience.

Love is a big word. I believe in Love. I believe that God is Love.

The doctrine of Christ enjoins men, all brothers in His eyes, to love one another.

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

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.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

Love each other because you are brethren from one father and mother. If you love one another, then God will be with you and will submit the enemy under your hands and you will live peacefully. In case, however, you live hatefully in feuds and dissension, then you will destroy yourselves.

Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not.

God is love, and love 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.

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.

We would all be better off if we loved God and loved each other.

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.

The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

I've never called President Obama a racist. I love President Obama. I pray for him all the time. God loves President Obama. God loves you. And God loves me.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

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.

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.

If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.