Fred Rogers Quotes

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

Where ever the spirit of Christ is known, there is much of good will, of mutual respect, of love and appreciation and kindness.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.

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

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about.

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.

How is it that you profess love for God but can't accept another human being?

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.

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.

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

Love, and do what you like.

Life's too short. We have to love each other.

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.

As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.

There is such a thing as 'thanks-feeling' - feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.

If a man say, 'I love God,' and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

My message is to get human beings to love God, love their neighbor and for the life of me I just don't see the downside of human beings not being so mean to one another and actually care for one another and not steal from one another and not murder each other for their tennis shoes. That's the message I have.