Quotes about Others

An Israelite could not have sung the familiar song 'God is so good, God is so good, God is so good, he's so good to me' (though the words echo the Psalms) without being reminded also of its ethical consequence: 'God asks me to show that goodness to others.

He preferred yielding his own wish to gratify others, rather than to insist upon having his own way.

It is a charming quality of the happiness we inspire in others that, far from being diminished like a reflection, it comes back to us enhanced.

Love others and as you do, that love will return to you.

That's what's so difficult about Jesus' call to love others. On one level, it's easy to love God, because God doesn't smell. God doesn't have bad breath. God doesn't reward kindness with evil. God doesn't make berating comments. Loving God is easy, in this sense. But Jesus really let us have it when he attached our love for God with our love for other people.

You have to understand before you can respect, and you have to respect before you can fully love. This is a tremendously spiritually therapeutic process, an emptying of myself so I can grow more in my love for others.

His solitary act was a radical statement of the importance of community. If we desire to be remade in God's image, we will be molded in such a way that we move toward others.

And what is the will of God?—to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me—that is the will of God.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Christ wants to lift us to where He is. Do we desire to do the same for others?

I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less.