John Morton Quotes

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

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.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

If you have the capacity to love, you have the capacity to love anyone.

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 always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise.

The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

Develop a mind so filled with love that it resembles space.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

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

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.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.