Jain Quotes

Reject hatred without hating.

Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.

We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.

I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that there is power and strength in that.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

I do not believe in the law of hate.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being.

He refused to let hate make him hate.

My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.

In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible.

Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.

Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive. There is nothing amazing about being rich or highly educated; only when the individual has a warm heart do these attributes become worthwhile.

There is a power in love that our world has not discovered yet. Jesus discovered it centuries ago. Mahatma Gandhi of India discovered it a few years ago, but most men and most women never discover it. For they believe in hitting for hitting; they believe in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth; they believe in hating for hating; but Jesus comes to us and says, 'This isn't the way.'

Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.

Just bring love. Everybody keeps bringing violence, let's bring love.

The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.

Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.