Edgar Guest Quotes

To win hearts, smile kindly on people's weaknesses.

No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they're labeled.

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.

Please be kind, don't be judgemental.

The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.

Compassion can never coexist with judgement because judgement creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.

Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we don’t judge or categorize someone else, when we simply give each other the benefit of the doubt or remain quiet. Charity is accepting someone’s differences, weaknesses, and shortcomings; having patience with someone who has let us down; or resisting the impulse to become offended when someone doesn’t handle something the way we might have hoped. Charity is refusing to take advantage of another’s weakness and being willing to forgive someone who has hurt us. Charity is expecting the best of each other

I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.

Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.

Works of love are always to accept and respect others.

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.

Grace is the wonderful spirit that imbues every fiber of our being when we practice the fruits of the spirit: kindness, patience, understanding, forgiveness, love, gentleness, fellowship and endurance.

Believe the best about people. Pray for their short comings. You are not the standard. We all need grace.

We, the human beings in this world, if there is a spark of goodness or kindness in our hearts, avoid judging people. We prefer forgiving to judging.

The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

One should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.