Quotes related to 1 Peter 3:8
It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next.
— Albert Bandura
Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.
— Marcus Aurelius
I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.
— Leo Buscaglia
Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.
— Elbert Hubbard
Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.
— Henry Ward Beecher
No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.
— John Wesley
for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge
— Virginia Woolf
A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.
— Confucius
Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.
— GK Chesterton
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
— Joseph Addison
The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.
— Confucius
There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.
— Edmund Burke