Max Lucado Quotes

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

What is called generosity is really compassion. In the Shin'ei it is written "Seen from the eye of compassion, there is noone to be disliked. One who has sinned is to be pitied all the more." There is no limit to the breadth and depth of ones heart. There is room enough for all. That we still worship the sages of the three ancient kingdoms is because their compassion reaches us yet today.

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.

It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

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.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being …

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

It takes strength to be kind; it's not a weakness.

I love people. Jesus loves people.

Everyone should just be kind to one another.

I am constantly nice to people. Sometimes they don't deserve it.

In the end only kindness matters.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity.

If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

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

Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

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