T. D. Jakes Quotes

No matter if we're in a contentious situation or simply engaging in an everyday interaction, we should aspire to have the strength to be kind always. If each of us shared this aspiration, we'd all be better off.

Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?

I just try to get along with people and show the love that I would like to be shown to me.

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

We need grace in our lives, and I'm not talking about heavenly grace. I'm talking about human grace. We should try and be warm and friendly.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect.

I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

To be social is to be forgiving.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

Try to exercise gentleness, kindness and humour, and you cannot go far wrong.

If only love can drive out hate, we have to remember that love is a verb. It requires action.

Walter Mercado means love, peace and understanding, means compassion.

We need to be a bit kinder and more aware of what is really important.

The truth is that we should live with less envy and more cordiality and empathy.

I think we're all trying our hardest, and a lot of times we do bad things and need to do more good things. We need to be more caring, more forgiving, more loving.

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.

You know what takes effort? Being kind. Being patient. Being respectful.