Jewish Proverb Quotes

Whoever feels mercy for the cruel is bound to eventually be cruel to the merciful.

Compassion towards the wicked – is cruelty to all beings.

I try to embrace people with love, unconditional love, like Christ did.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel.

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Those who do not love me do not deserve to live.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

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

It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

Love your enemies... it's not always an easy tenet to live by... and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

I shy away from showing cruelty on the page. A lot of the violence in my books actually happens off stage. The police come on to the scene after the event has occurred.