Jon Stewart Quotes

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

Humans are not really very humane.

If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!

Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

I want to be a good human being.

The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that's all I care about.

Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind.

The best way is to say that as a Christian for me the essence of Christian faith is that you treat others as if you wish to be treated.

Forgiveness is a basis for moral and ethical behavior.

It is by doing good that we become good.

I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and sense of responsibility with or without religion.

Kindness, tolerance, integrity, modesty, generosity - these are attributes that events permit us. They are our holiday moods, and we are as proud of them as of the fine clothes we have hung away to wear on occasions.

It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.

My parents taught me broad Christian values. To be kind to one another, to be honest, not to just think about yourself.