Quotes about Others
The central mark of a maturing Christian, and of a maturing congregation, is that they increasingly love others as Christ loves them.
— Gregory Boyd
Love passionately bears with others for as long as patience is needed; love doesn't demand others to be like itself, but is so focused on the needs of others that it bends over backwards to become what others need it to be; love is not ambitious, self-centered, or so consumed with itself that it never thinks of the needs or desires that others possess.…
— Rick Renner
It's not about you.
— Rick Warren
Other people are going to find healing in your wounds. Your greatest life messages and your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.
— Rick Warren
Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.
— Rick Warren
Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.
— Dante Alighieri
If we start with such ideas as God's omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence, we will never arrive at a true knowledge of God. However, if we participate by faith in Jesus Christ as the one who "is there for others," we are liberated from self and experience the transcendence that is truly the God of the Bible.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Self-centered love loves the other for the sake of itself; spiritual love loves the other for the sake of Christ.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God does not will that I should fashion the other person according to the image that seems good to me, that is, in my own image; rather in his very freedom from me God made this person in his image. I can never know beforehand how God's image should appear in others.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.
— Marcus Aurelius
When you center life around yourself, not only do you miss out on God's best, but you rob other people of the joy and blessings that God wants to give them through you.
— Joel Osteen
Other people are going to find healing in your wounds. Your greatest life messages and your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.
— Rick Warren