The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

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

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

Peace begins with a smile.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

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.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

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

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

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

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

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

There’s people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you’re compassionate.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

I am for people. I can’t help it.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Saints need sinners.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

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

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

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

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.