But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Who, being loved, is poor?

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

We love things we love what they are.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: ‚Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.‘

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

One of the things I’ve never been accused of is not caring about people.

Where thou art, that is home.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.