Martin Sheen Quotes

I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I'm a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you're supposed to be doing.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.

I think that's the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that they have all the answers and more believing in Him.

Yes, I have my standpoint, but I try to follow the life of Christ and he was very non-judgmental. It's not my position to judge. It's God's position to judge.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.

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

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.

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.

Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.

Whatever God would want me to do... love each other and help others. I want to add, not take away.

I just want to be remembered as a person who loved God, who served others more than he served himself, who was trying to grow in maturity and stability.

Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.

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

If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.

I want to live my life the way Jesus does - I want to love people.

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility.

… true evangelical faith ... clothes the naked; feeds the hungry; consoles the afflicted; shelters the miserable; aids and consoles all the oppressed; returns good for evil; serves those that injure it; prays for those that persecute it.