Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

We need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

I don’t like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don’t like factory farming. I’m not an advocate for the meat industry.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

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?

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

Forgotten is forgiven.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

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.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.