Megan Phelps-Roper Quotes

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

Be kind to the living.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Respect all manner of men regardless of their station in life. Compassion is one of the greatest virtues.

Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.

I think it would be a far greater world if people were kinder and more respectful to each other.

There is no forgiveness, justice, or healing on any level when hate is involved.

The biggest lesson I've learned is that hurt people hurt people, and kindness is just as contagious. So if you can focus your efforts on engineering kindness, it will prevail.

If people become kinder to each other and begin to forgive some bitterness, if they begin to love their neighbor as the Most High loves us, then I am for it.

Everyone should just be kind to one another.

It's a very basic, simple idea, isn't it - saying thank you, saying sorry - and in the overcomplicated, over-busy world we live in it is very powerful.

Only love can heal hatred.

I was thanking him for...well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose.