Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.

There is something in me today that makes just love everybody I see.

With Malice Towards None

The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God's love for us that He not only gives us His Word but also lends us His ear. So it is His work that we do for our brother and sister when we learn to listen to them.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

I felt myself becoming angry too easily. I once saw a couple at a restaurant, and I could tell from their mannerisms that they were having some type of disagreement. I got mad at the guy and wanted to tell him, "Come on — appreciate your wife!

To understand is to forgive.

Patience is the decision to move at someone else's pace rather than pressure him or her to match yours.

We do not walk away from others to punish them; we turn away so the embers of anger can cool and reason can again rule our hearts.

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.

I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.