Lydia M. Child Quotes

To spread love, healing, peace, and joy is my mission in life - and so I speak up.

In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Jesus said, 'Greater things of these you shall do...' Become a peace builder, a bridge builder, not a destroyer, and the way you do that is through friendships and relationships, and through authentic character.

The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.

I think one of the best words in the English language is 'compassion.' I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.

When I'm speaking of love, when I'm speaking of reversing hate, I'm speaking not only of reconciliation - even I don't use that word - I use another word in Spanish, that's called 'reencuentro' - it's not reconciliation.

Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

With our love, we could save the world.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

We must be agents of love.

Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.

Every single night, I try to get people to realize that love is what is most important, and that they need to use every opportunity given them to reach out in love. Schmaltzy and corny, I know, but it's true.

As the human race, let's continue to show love, compassion, and respect towards one another.

The most important thing on Earth is for all of us to make this sentence true: Compassion is what people do.

I feel like I was transformed by the kindness of people who had every reason to show me cruelty and the transformative power of their decision to treat me like a human being, that was so huge, that anytime somebody wants me to talk about that I feel like I absolutely want to do that.

I truly believe that love is greater than politics.

If people become kinder to each other and begin to forgive some bitterness, if they begin to love their neighbor as the Most High loves us, then I am for it.

Always be kind, especially in times when it seems like everyone is giving up on each other. Love harder.