J. C. Ryle Quotes

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.

True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.

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

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

As I allow myself my own weaknesses, I should tolerate the weaknesses of others.

Forgiveness should go hand-in-hand with love.

Maybe, love is always forgiveness, to a degree.

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

Lasting love extends grace. No relationship will make it without grace. The Bible tells us that this is part of love. You're not going to have a relationship unless you have forgiveness, mercy, patience, acceptance, grace. You've got to cut people some slack.

We all need grace in the face of each other.

My experience of people is that they are infinitely forgivable.

Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this love tolerating intolerance; charity covering, as with a vail, even the sin of the lack of charity.

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

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

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

A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world because it knows that everyone is doing the best they can, given their state of consciousness and the histories they're dragging behind them.

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

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

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.