Fred Rogers Quotes

The essence of any religion is good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion.

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.

I just think bad vibes and hate and Trump are getting so much airtime, we need to speak out loud for peace and equality and fairness and make sure we all know that there are a lot of us out here in the world that just want love.

In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible.

If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.

All is love...All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Love and compassion are the pillars of world peace.

I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.

Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.

In a world of hate, love is the revolution.

Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence to all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained.

Hate doesn't end hate. Love ends hate.

Humanity needs justice, peace and love and we can have this only by returning with our hearts towards God who is the source of all this.

I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.

True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.

I was not born to share the hate, but love.

It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and therefore to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to have passion for all things, not just between two people, but for all human beings, for all things of the earth, the animals, the trees - everything the earth contains. When we have such compassion we will not despoil the earth as we are doing now and we will have no wars.

Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.

Love isn't material. It's energy... We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.

The religion of humanity is love.