James E. Faust Quotes

The brave love mercy, and delight to save.

The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.

Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being …

… 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.

'Les Miserables', the book, 'Les Miserables', the musical - it's about giving; it's about goodness. It's about compassion and love.

It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.

Love and kindness are never wasted.

To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is to be dead; to be happy is to devote oneself; to exist only for oneself is to damn oneself, and to exile oneself to hell.

Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.

Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for him in his suffering as he does for himself in his own.

I do find the values in A Christmas Carol significant. It is important not to be mean and stingy and not to give up love for money.

Christmas is, for those who wish to follow the way of Jesus, an invitation to accept into our comfortable and safe lives those who come to us from far away, who seem ragged, marginal, in transition.

The church must always show compassion, always.

If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

If your enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink

Without love, we are not free from our own self interest.

Alas for the rarity / Of Christian charity

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

The major forces in human nature: self interest and caring for others