Brooke Foss Westcott Quotes

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got

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

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

I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with the suffering of someone they love.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

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.

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.

Tell the people... please, tell the people of Alabama that I love them. Tell them I'm suffering a lot, but I love them.

My father's favorite poem was probably 'Love is patient, love is kind.' It's simply stated but pretty profound. That's how my dad wrote.

Unconditional love goes a long way.

Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It's not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline - and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience.

Day, the champion of the people, the one who can't bear to see those around him suffer on his behalf, who would gladly give his life for those he loves.