Jon Anderson Quotes

Look at the people you don't love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart.

I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.

Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

You know, my mother had a rule which was 'people are just people.'

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.

First of all, I'm no better than the next person.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias; the spirit of liberty remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded; the spirit of liberty is the spirit of Him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned, but has never quite forgotten; that there may be a kingdom where the least shall be heard and considered side by side with the greatest.

For me, I try to live life every day by getting to know people for who they are and learning from them.

I've learned a lot. Being more compassionate.

I don't think I'm better than anyone else.

I don't really judge myself, I guess. I don't really judge other players.

Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.

I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental.

People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in them a pleasant propensity toward the lesser sins, a pleasing readiness also to admit the possibility that on occasion they may be in the wrong--they may be mistaken.

On a spiritual level, on a place where you want to be a better human being and listen more, I try. I joke, but it has. I mean, I don't consider myself a card-carrying Buddhist, you know. But I do believe deeply in the ideas, and I think anytime you have interest in anything, it somehow humbles you.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Grace is the wonderful spirit that imbues every fiber of our being when we practice the fruits of the spirit: kindness, patience, understanding, forgiveness, love, gentleness, fellowship and endurance.

The expansion of your own consciousness, love capacity, humility and compassion - this is the path; this is the way.

The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

I think we must never, ever demonize one another. That's true not just black people to black people; that's human being to human being.

You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.

I think the church needs – I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.

If we looked inside ourselves and remembered how insignificant we are, just for a couple of minutes a day, respect for other people would be an automatic result.

I think it just came with me evolving as a person and me understanding that it's not right to judge or to say anything derogatory about other people, especially if I don't know them.

We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefore, who are we to condemn anybody?