Paul the Apostle Quotes

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

My faith is central to everything I do. My faith position is a Good Samaritan position of trying to watch out for the other person.

Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.

How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.

Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done!

The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master.

Let us cultivate love and compassion, both of which give life true meaning. This is the religion I preach. It is simple. Its temple is the heart. Its teaching is love and compassion. Its moral values are loving and respecting others, whoever they may be. Whether one is a lay person or a monastic, we have no other option if we wish to survive in this world.

You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love.

Compassion is a spiritual technology.

Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.

Never refuse any who ask you for help; if your pockets are empty, give them hope. Your every action must be born of kindness, your every word spoken with love. Live as God would have you live, and others will be inspired to do the same.

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.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

The brave love mercy, and delight to save.

The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.

I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like we're supposed to.

The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.

Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

I often write about nonreligious people, and I try to find situations where their sense of humanity is restored or discovered. I think you can be a good person in many ways. And I think you often have to be careful that prayer can seem superficial, because it's a very complicated thing to love your neighbor as yourself.

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.