John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes

If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith.

A Christian is committed to the belief that Love and Mercy are the most powerful forces on earth.

I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

I want to be a Christian like Christ - loving and accepting of other people.

I deeply believe in many Christian values: love people; do the right thing; know that there's good in everyone, that God's looking out for all of us.

The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.

Let us learn from Christ how to pray, to forgive, to sow peace, and to be near those in need.

Are you angry with someone? Pray for that person. That is what Christian love is.

It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.

The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

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

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

When I look at the Gospel, I see how it is speaking to me at this time. I see how to be to others and it helps.

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

And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.

Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.

Christians are supposed to be the most forgiving people on the face of the Earth.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

It is not Christian to go against someone. I am in favour of life.

I believe in unconditional love and equality. Jesus Christ exemplified these qualities.

Being Christlike guarantees that you'll have the most important friend of all: the Savior. He knows what it's like to be misunderstood, lonely, and rejected.