Marvin J. Ashton Quotes

When mankind goes back to treating people the way you want to be treated, things will settle, I don't see that happening. I treat people the way I want to be treated, which makes me odd.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

We all have to get better as human beings and that's something you can't really get away from.

We often do to people what people are very comfortable with doing to animals without a second thought.

I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.

If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can't, I'll stick to animals.

I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.

It doesn't matter who you sleep with, it's how you treat other people in this world.

He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.

Explore your web: the needs, the beliefs, and the emotions that are controlling you so there's more of you to give and so you can appreciate what's driving other people. It's the only way our world's going to change.

The places in our personality where we tend to deviate from love are not out faults, but our wounds. God doesn't want to punish us, but to heal us. And that is how He wishes us to view the wounds in other people.

I think we all have the same spirituality deep inside and we grow to learn more about it all the time, and we try very hard to become better people as we grow. We search all the time for the truth. We learn more about the world and we can't have thoughts like, "We are better than them" or "They are not good enough for God". This is very bad way of thinking, you know?

Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity with their vocation--but their progress will of necessity be but the pace of a hen.

This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.

Being judgmental and condemning is not one of the gifts of the Spirit.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.

The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside.

God isn't keeping a record of each time we fall, but He is excited about our progress, and we should be excited, too!

Nothing teaches character better than generosity.

The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.

How we treat other people changes them, but even more so, how we treat other people changes us.

There are people we treat wrong and later, we're prepared to treat other people right.

Forgiveness means that I continually am willing to forgive the other person for not being God — for not fulfilling all my needs. I, too, must ask forgiveness for not being able to fulfill other people's needs. … The interesting thing is that when you can forgive people for not being God, then you can celebrate that they are a reflection of God.