Jon Katz Quotes

Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people.

The thing about animals is that they don't judge you. They accept you the way you are.

Billy Graham talks about how he doesn't judge people. I don't either. Some people I am just pissed at.

Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.

If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.

Kids leave us and go off on their own lives. Family members tell us what they think of us. Animals can't do that. They really are blank canvases, and we can project anything we want onto them. So the relationship is very pure and simple.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us with unconditional love.

It's hard to boo a puppy. You can't boo a handful of puppies.

Real love is unconditional.

The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are.

This sounds very simple and maybe even trite, but very few people know that they are loved without condition or limits.

Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now for God's, and be at peace.

Jesus condemned no one except hypocrites.

Love is much stronger than your fault could ever be.

Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time.

I was raised religious. I was raised Christian. And there’s a lot of edgy topics and things that go on with religion, but to me the most important thing, is that the first thing is that you’re supposed to love everyone the same and not judge anyone… Technically, we’re all the same. And everybody makes mistakes. So no one is better than another person.

I will love you if you are stupid, if you slip and fall on your face, if you do the wrong thing, if you make mistakes, if you behave like a human being — I will love you no matter.

Works of love are always to accept and respect others.

Dad," I said hesitantly, "I wish you could be there for me even when I'm doing the wrong thing. I wish you could love me even when I'm screwing up.

With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame. Whatever it is, we are all the same.

We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins.

Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others.

Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.

It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?