Kevin DeYoung Quotes

Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.

Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

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

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world because it knows that everyone is doing the best they can, given their state of consciousness and the histories they're dragging behind them.

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.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

Respect all manner of men regardless of their station in life. Compassion is one of the greatest virtues.

It would never occur to me to judge anyone.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

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

Love truth, but pardon error.

The closer people are to the truth, the more tolerant they are of the mistakes of others.

I feel really privileged to have gracious and merciless people with a lot of perspective and patience in my life.

As a society, we're failing to recognize something my dad knew to be true - that kindness is the greatest show of strength. Too often, we are led to believe that strength is best demonstrated by exerting dominance or superiority over others, while kindness is portrayed as the opposite - a sign of weakness.

I have learnt one thing in life: that if you love someone, you have to accept that person with his/her flaws.

We are in this world to learn and embody compassion and love.

The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste, and who show themselves unfriendly, ungrateful, and troublesome to us.

I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.

Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.

Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others.