Max Lucado Quotes

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

In order to have understanding, you need forgiveness, compassion, and empathy.

I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I'm trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.

If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind.

Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Maybe if people stopped thinking of themselves, and started thinking of the other sides of things, people wouldn't hurt each other.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

It doesn't do any good to argue. Be kind.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

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

I believe in forgiveness; I believe in trying to work with people.

As the human race, let's continue to show love, compassion, and respect towards one another.

Hate won't solve anything.

The way I stand up to bullies is with kindness and love. Because I think that's what they really need. They're misunderstood and probably really upset themselves.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

It's better to be kind than to be right.

Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.

We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love.

Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and extenuate it as much as is possible, by considering the nearness of the relation, and the long friendship and familiarity between you--obligations to kindness which a single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident by its manageable handle.

Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe not this time but maybe the next or the hundredth time.

Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human.

What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.

I don't know if there's a lot of patience anymore. I think that could serve a lot of people.