Russell Simmons Quotes

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about.

My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

It doesn't matter what tradition you come from, what religion you have or don't, what culture you were brought up in or what God you ascribe to: Faith is worthwhile as it helps us to be kinder, more generous, more loving and forgiving people.

God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

I think about love being so important because, to me, that's the reason we were put on Earth. Love, in a sense, is God to me.

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.

At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free.