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Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Ideas Quotes

Quotes About Ideas 



  • I don't care that they stole my idea... I care that they don't have any of their own. --NIKOLA TESLA
  • The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it.
  • All of us have those ‘Eureka!’ moments when we are struck with unexpected inspiration usually taking the form of a great idea. But not all of us act on those ideas, resigning them to mere good intentions. Great ideas can only become something truly beautiful when we determine to act on them.
  • The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. --ALFRED WHITNEY GRISWOLD





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Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night with this incredible idea? You go back to sleep and wake up again and suddenly, it is no longer a good idea. We all have ideas, it is what we do with those ideas that are important. When an idea comes to mind write it down, try it out, and try it out some more! 



Minute With Maxwell: Great Idea or Good Intention? - John Maxwell Team
All of us have those ‘Eureka!’ moments when we are struck with unexpected inspiration usually taking the form of a great idea. But not all of us act on those ideas, resigning them to mere good intentions. Great ideas can only become something truly beautiful when we determine to act on them. 

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Matthew 15:9 Their worship is a farce, for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God.’ ”
Acts 17:21 (It should be explained that all the Athenians as well as the foreigners in Athens seemed to spend all their time discussing the latest ideas.)
Proverbs 4:19 But the way of the wicked is like total darkness. They have no idea what they are stumbling over.
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Saturday, April 06, 2024

Honorable Quotes

Quotes About Honor 

  • A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) Irish dramatist & socialist.
  • All I know is that I am a product of God and all I can do is the best I can to thank Him and honor Him and try to grow in Him, step by step. Bob Smith 
  • As I've once said, "Honor may not win power, but it wins respect. And respect earns power."
  • Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. Mignon Mclaughlin
  • God has a perfect timing for everything. Learn to wait on Him. This brings Him honor, and it brings you peace. (see Psalm 27:14) 
  • Here lies the tremendous mystery - that God should be all-powerful, yet refuse to coerce. He summons us to cooperation. We are honored in being given the opportunity to participate in his good deeds. Remember how He asked for help in performing his miracles: Fill the waterpots, stretch out your hand, distribute the loaves. Elisabeth Elliot
  • Honor is the reward of virtue. --Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman
  • Honor lies in honest toil. --Grover Cleveland, American President (1837-1908)
  • If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare. -- William D. Arnot (1808–1875) Scottish preacher and theological writer
  • In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes. John Ruskin (1819-1900) English Art Critic
  • It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. Mark Twain
  • Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. --Robert Orben
  • My kid saved your honor student. God
  • No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. --CALVIN COOLIDGE
  • Nowadays there's no honor, only drama. Your friend today can be your enemy tomorrow.
  • One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them. Thomas Sowell.
  • Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. Jean Sibelius
  • Respect comes before love. Someone can love you and never respect you; a person can do the worst thing to you and still love you but never respect you. Respect = honor so if they don't honor you, that love means nothing.
  • Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are. Thomas Carlyle
  • So many people think themselves no longer capable to be Christians because they are unchaste, weak, and backsliding. But in fact there is a far greater number of people who will never be Christians because they think themselves just, honorable, and pure.
  • Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave them birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life. Aristotle 
  • The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be. Socrates (469-399 BC) Greek Philosopher
  • UNkind Christians are the Wrong kind. They dishonor the name. 
  • When you say 'I love you', you are making a promise with someone else's heart. Try to honor it.
  • Whom, then, do I call educated? First, those who control circumstances instead of being mastered by them, those who meet all occasions manfully and act in accordance with intelligent thinking, those who are honorable in all dealings, who treat good-naturedly persons and things that are disagreeable; and furthermore, those who hold their pleasures under control and are not overcome by misfortune; finally, those who are not spoiled by success.
  • You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. Aristotle







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Whether you have received your day of honor or not, it is always important to start each day with respect. When you respect yourself, you in turn will respect others and lead by example. 











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1 Peter 2:12 Be careful to live properly among your unbelieving neighbors. Then even if they accuse you of doing wrong, they will see your honorable behavior, and they will give honor to God when he judges the world.
1 Peter 3:15 but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,
1 Timothy 1:17 ESV To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
1 Timothy 3:1 This is a trustworthy saying: “If someone aspires to be an elder, he desires an honorable position.”
2 Corinthians 7:1 (MSG) With promises like this to pull us on, dear friends, let’s make a clean break with everything that defiles or distracts us, both within and without. Let’s make our entire lives fit and holy temples for the worship of God.
2 Thessalonians 1:12 Then the name of our Lord Jesus will be honored because of the way you live, and you will be honored along with him. This is all made possible because of the grace of our God and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 6:2 “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise—
Ephesians 6:4 (MSG) Fathers, don’t frustrate your children with no-win scenarios. Take them by the hand and lead them in the way of the Master.
Exodus 20:12 Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Hebrews 13:4 Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
John 12:26 (MSG) “If any of you wants to serve me, then follow me. Then you’ll be where I am, ready to serve at a moment’s notice. The Father will honor and reward anyone who serves me.
John 5:23 so that everyone will honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son is certainly not honoring the Father who sent him.
Mark 5:16 In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.
Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Proverbs 21:21 (MSG) Whoever goes hunting for what is right and kind finds life itself— glorious life!
Revelation 21:26 - They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations.
Romans 13:7 Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
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Monday, March 25, 2024

Mission Quotes

Quotes About Mission 

  • A person is either a missionary or a mission field. --Corrie Ten Boom
  • And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives... and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted. --Nate Saint
  • Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved. --Charles Spurgeon
  • God had only one Son, and He was a missionary. --David Livingstone
  • Mission exists because worship doesn't. --John Piper
  • Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission. --Zig Ziglar







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2 Corinthians 11:12 And what I am doing I will continue to do, in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission they work on the same terms as we do.
Acts 1:8 ESV But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Acts 9:3 As he was approaching Damascus on this mission, a light from heaven suddenly shone down around him.
John 19:28 Jesus knew that his mission was now finished, and to fulfill Scripture he said, “I am thirsty.”
Mark 16:15 ESV And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
Matthew 24:14 ESV And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
Matthew 28:19-20 ESV Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
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Sunday, March 10, 2024

Compassion Quotes

Quotes About Compassion 

  • A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward. --William John Bennett
  • Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations. Erwin W. Lutzer (1941- )
  • Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity. --Pema Chodron
  • Compassion begins with attention. --Daniel Goleman
  • Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural. --John Berger, English Artist (1926-  )
  • Compassion is not a popular virtue. --Karen Armstrong, English Writer (1944-  )
  • Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. --Frederick Buechner, American Clergyman (1926-  )
  • Compassion means justice. Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-c. 1327)
  • Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. --Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman (1813-1887)
  • God's care will carry you so you can carry others. Robert Harold Schuller (1926- )
  • Hearin' is one thing and listenin' is another. William Frend Demorgan (1839-1917)
  • I have this theory that if one person shows compassion to another then that person will start a chain reaction of the same. Rachel Joy Scott
  • If I had known what trouble you were bearing; What griefs were in the silence of your face; I would have been more gentle and more caring, And tried to give you gladness for a space. Mary Carolyn Davies
  • Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away. --Abraham Lincoln
  • Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to the place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it. Henri J. M. Nouwen
  • Love dissolves hate. Kindness melts cruelty. Compassion calms passion. Cooperation evokes love and when we bow, others bend. This creates harmony. unknown
  • Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God will never. William Cowper (1731-1800)
  • Man's sorrows often will not let me sleep. Henriette Roland Holst (1869-1952)
  • Never interfere with God's providential dealings with other souls. Be true to God yourself and watch. Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
  • Quaker to a burglar: "Friend, I would do thee no harm for the world, but thou standest where I am about to shoot." 
  • Regardless of how we define Christ's separation from the world, one fact is clear: he did not separate himself from human beings and their needs. Nor did he limit his concern to the spiritual part of man's personality. Erwin W. Lutzer (1941- )
  • Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these. Bob Goddard
  • Teach me to feel another's; woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
  • The dew of compassion is; a tear. Lord George Noel Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
  • The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. Anthony de Mello
  • We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion. Sydney J. Harris
  • Why stand we here trembling around calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells, stretching a hand to save the falling man? William Blake (1757-1827)
  • You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion. --Dalai Lama


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Compassion in the Small Things | MWM
Compassion Is The Heart Of Leadership = The heart of leadership is compassion. Compassion is empathy in action. It's not just about feeling for someone's struggle, it's about doing something to support them in it. Compassion is in the small things, in the meaningful actions, where it shows you are paying attention to them. So, what is one practical way you can support someone and have compassion?



Do for Yourself What You Do for Others | MWM
Give Yourself Grace = Compassion is when you are kind and understanding towards yourself and others. When we practice self-compassion, it lowers our stress levels and helps us be more resilient and strong. Where in your life do you need to be more compassionate with yourself?



Help Carry Someone Else’s Load | MWM
Relate With Others = Empathy is figuring out a way to understand what another person is feeling, and it allows you to know what it is like to walk in their shoes. When you have empathy you can see into the soul of another’s struggle and relate with them. Be an empathetic leader, help the people around you carry their load. 



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Care More, Do More! = Compassionate people are quick to help. Their caring translates into actions. When people care, trust increases and communication improves. Make a commitment today to care a little more and do more for others.


How to Relieve Stress and Improve Persistence
Be A Friend To Yourself = Do you beat yourself up? Instead, treat yourself as kindly as you would treat a good friend if they were dealing with the same challenge or mistake. When we are compassionate towards ourselves, it lowers our stress levels, helps us persevere, and just feel better. Where have you been too hard on yourself?






Less of a Feeling = Look beyond yourself, focus on others. Put yourself into someone else's shoes and show them how much you care. Invest, connect, and make a difference in someones life today!





Do you care enough to be intentional about adding values to others? Every single day, find one person or multiple people to add value to. Don't let a day go by where you don't pour into someone else!




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1 John 3:17 If someone has enough money to live well and sees a brother or sister in need but shows no compassion - how can God’s love be in that person?
Colossians 3:12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
Ephesians 4:32 ESV Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Hebrews 10:34 - For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.
Luke 10:33 - But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion.
Luke 15:20 - And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.
Luke 7:13 - And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.”
Mark 6:34 ESV When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.
Matthew 9:36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were confused and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
Micah 6:8 (MSG) But he’s already made it plain how to live, what to do, what God is looking for in men and women. It’s quite simple: Do what is fair and just to your neighbor, be compassionate and loyal in your love, And don’t take yourself too seriously— take God seriously.
Philippians 1:8 God knows how much I love you and long for you with the tender compassion of Christ Jesus.
Proverbs 14:21 (MSG) It’s criminal to ignore a neighbor in need, but compassion for the poor—what a blessing!
Romans 9:15 - For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
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Friday, February 23, 2024

Rules Quotes

Quotes About Rules 

  • Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many. --ALEXANDER HAMILTON
  • Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. --Douglas Bader, British Soldier (1910-1982)




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Rules are essential to life. They create order, boundaries, and an established guideline for right and wrong. But rules can also restrict a person unnecessarily. Rules can prevent someone from accessing their own thought processes, ideas or creativity. It can stifle innovation and invention. But then you have rules that just make us good human beings—and those are good rules to have. Learn to balance the two.


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Proverbs 19:16 (MSG) Keep the rules and keep your life; careless living kills.
Psalms 97:1 (MSG) God rules: there’s something to shout over! On the double, mainlands and islands—celebrate!
Matthew 15:9 They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.'”
Daniel 9:5 "we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules."
1 Timothy 3:5 (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?);
2 Timothy 2:5 - An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
1 Timothy 5:21 - In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels I charge you to keep these rules without prejudging, doing nothing from partiality.
1 Timothy 5:17 - Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.
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Thursday, February 22, 2024

Addition Quotes

Quotes About Addition 



  • The soul grows by subtraction, not addition. --Henry David Thoreau




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Add Value By Asking Questions = In his book, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, John Maxwell discusses the Law of Addition, which says that leaders add value by serving others. The best leaders find out where their people are, and ask them questions. When leaders care enough to do that, they will add value to the people they lead, taking them to a whole new level.



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Ecclesiastes 3:14 (MSG) I’ve also concluded that whatever God does, that’s the way it’s going to be, always. No addition, no subtraction. God’s done it and that’s it. That’s so we’ll quit asking questions and simply worship in holy fear.
Ephesians 6:16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
Acts 19:39 NET - But if you want anything in addition, it will have to be settled in a legal assembly.
2 Corinthians 7:13 NET - Therefore we have been encouraged. And in addition to our own encouragement, we rejoiced even more at the joy of Titus, because all of you have refreshed his spirit.
2 Corinthians 8:19 NET - In addition, this brother has also been chosen by the churches as our traveling companion as we administer this generous gift to the glory of the Lord himself and to show our readiness to help.
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Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Love quotes

Quotes About Love 


  • A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. Josh Billings
  • A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others. The Wizard to the Tin Man
  • I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world. --CHARLES DICKENS
  • A life filled with love must have some thorns, but a life empty of love will have no roses.
  • A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror. Ken Keyes Jr.
  • Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. - Jeanne Moreau
  • Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. Jeanne Moreau
  • All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. --JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
  • Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tsu
  • Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
  • Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. - David Chambless
  • Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave to wealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to have done nothing and succeeded at it. Erwin W. Lutzer
  • Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people. Sigmund Freud
  • Every experience of accepting love strengthens the muscles of the personality. Jean Illsley Clarke & Connie Dawson (Growing Up Again)
  • Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened. Charles Spurgeon
  • Falling in love ... I think you're supposed to get shot with an arrow or something, but the rest of it isn't supposed to be so painful. Manuel (age 8 )
  • Falling in love is like an avalanche where you have to run for your life. John (age 9)
  • Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. Matt Groening
  • Fill every thought with determination, Every step with courage and every word with love. unknown
  • For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Rainer Maria Rilke
  • God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them C. S. Lewis
  • Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing. Brian Tracy
  • He loves each one of us, as if there were only one of us. St. Augustine of Hippo
  • He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. Forrest Tucker
  • I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. Mother Teresa
  • I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. Rita Rudner
  • I love mankind; it's people I can't stand Woody Paige
  • I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. Og Mandino
  • I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend against its force....My love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day. Og Mandino
  • If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don't want to do it. It takes too long. Glenn (age 7)
  • If I learn to create love in my heart and silently share it with everyone I meet, love will grace every corner of my life.
  • If I learn to create love in my heart and silently share it with everyone I meet, love will grace every corner of my life. unknown
  • If I limit the love I give to just one or two, it will eventually go stale. If I learn to create love inside my heart and silently give it to everyone I meet, love will grace every corner of my life. unknown
  • If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? Woody Paige
  • If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil. James A. Garfield
  • If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa
  • If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. Michel de Montaigne
  • If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate. Nikka, age 6
  • If you would be loved, love, and be lovable. Ben Franklin
  • In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. Marc Chagall (1887-1985) Artist
  • It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. Andre Gide
  • It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor. Eric Hoffer
  • It's been lovely but I have to scream now Woody Paige
  • Jesus took the command to love our neighbor as we love ourselves, and pushed the definition of who is our neighbor, out, out, and still further out, until it reached to the ends of the earth and included all of humanity - all of God's children. Alvin Alexsi Currier
  • Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved. Henri Nouwen
  • Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong, Yet hate is short, and love is very long. Kenneth Boulding
  • Let us plant dates--even though we who plant them will never eat them....We must live by the love of what we will never see. Ruben Alves (Theologian)
  • Life is a journey, and love is what makes that journey worthwhile. unknown
  • Life is the flower for which love is the honey. --Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Novelist and dramatist
  • Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. David Grayson
  • Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross. William Barclay
  • Love cures people, the ones who receive love and the ones who give it, too. Dr. Karl Menninger
  • Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. James Baldwin
  • Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Franklin P. Jones
  • Love is a fruit. A fruit of whom? Of your hard work? Of your deep faith? Of your rigorous resolve? No. Love is a fruit of the Spirit of God. "The Spirit produces the fruit" (Gal. 5:22, NCV). Max Lucado (A Love Worth Giving)
  • Love is an attachment to something or someone that eventually welds itself to the heart... Doug Firebaugh
  • Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
  • Love is by far the most important thing of all. Brian Tracy
  • Love is like the measles: We all have to go through it.
  • Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. Judith Viorst
  • Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained. C. S. Lewis
  • Love is that condition in which The happiness of another person Is essential to your own. unknown
  • Love is what is left of a relationship after all the selfishness has been removed.
  • Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
  • Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile. Sean Connery
  • Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked. Katherine Anne Porter
  • Love of our neighbor consists of three things: to desire the greater good of everyone, to do what good we can when we can, and to bear, excuse and hide others' faults. St. John Vianney
  • Love should be a verb, not a noun. Denis Waitley
  • Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside. Margaret Walker
  • Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin
  • Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries. Corita Kent
  • Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood. Louise Beal
  • Love will find you, even if you are trying to hide from it. I been trying to hide from it since I was five, but the girls keep finding me. Dave (age 8)
  • Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. Lucille Ball
  • Love's a choice. Make wise decisions. Shellie R. Warren
  • More light than we can learn, more wealth than we can treasure, more love than we can earn, more peace than we can measure, because one Child is born.
  • My liberty as a Christian should always be supremely shackled by the love I am commanded to have towards another. Avery D. Miller
  • No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. Francois Muriac
  • O tell her, brief is life but love is long. Lord Alfred Tennyson
  • One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until maybe you fall in again. Judith Viorst
  • One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving. Amy Carmichael
  • Our Creator would never have made such lovely days and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them unless we were meant to be immortal. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart. Henry Ward Beecher
  • Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life and when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful a thought that is love. Mary Manin Morrissey
  • The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose. Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975) Historian
  • The age of your heart is the age of what you love. Marcel Prévost (1862-1941); French writer
  • The art of love... is largely the art of persistence. Albert Ellis
  • The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English poet
  • The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now. - Rick Warren
  • The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. G.K. Chesterton
  • The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Dramatist and Poet
  • The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling? Margaret Gatty
  • The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. Blaise Pascal
  • The love of God is one of the great realities of the universe, a pillar upon which the hope of the world rests. But it is a personal, intimate thing too. God does not love populations, He loves people. He loves not masses, but men. A. W. Tozer
  • The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both. --James Michener
  • The noble love of Jesus impels a man to do great things, and stirs him up to be always longing for what is more perfect. Thomas à Kempis
  • The only thing that you can never have too much of is love. Brian Tracy
  • The soul needs friendship, the heart needs love. Ed Habib
  • The Spirit of God first imparts love; he next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and this is about the last thing we have in many of our churches. Dwight L. Moody
  • There is nothing we can do to make God love us more; there is nothing we can do to make God love us less. Philip Yancey
  • There is nothing you can do to make God love you more! There is nothing you can do to make God love you less! His love is unconditional, impartial, everlasting, infinite, perfect! God is love!
  • There is only misfortune in not being loved; there is misery in not loving. Albert Camus
  • Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. A.W. Pinero
  • To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English Essayist
  • To live a little, you've got to love a whole lot. Love turns the ordinary into the extraordinary. Life is a gift we're given each and every day. Dream about tomorrow, but live for today. Don't wait for tomorrow. Make memories today. Life is for Living. unknown
  • To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. David Viscott, M.D.
  • To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose the next best. William M. Thackeray
  • To love God is the greatest of virtues; to be loved by God is the greatest of blessings. Portuguese Proverb
  • To love is to be vulnerable C.S. Lewis
  • To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life. J.E. Buchrose
  • To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God. William Temple
  • Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. Dinah Shore
  • True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing. Leanna L. Bartram
  • Truth is not a virtue unless it is given with love! Pete Welsh
  • We all need love, but we need it most when we deserve it least--when we have sinned against someone, when we have made poor choices, when we have failed. In these situations, ordinary love must become extra-ordinary love. Barbara Rosberg
  • We are all pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love letters to the world. Mother Teresa
  • We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present. Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love)
  • We can do no great things, only small things with great love. Mother Teresa
  • We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. Mother Theresa
  • We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens. Brooks Atkinson
  • We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made. M. Acklam
  • We grow old as soon as we cease to love and trust. Madame de Choiseul
  • We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds in us. Ed Howe
  • We need someone to believe in us -- if we do well, we want our work commended, our faith corroborated. The individual who thinks well of you, who keeps his mind on your good qualities, and does not look for your flaws, is your friend. Who is my brother? I'll tell you: he is the one who recognizes the good in me. Elbert Hubbard
  • We spend too much time looking for the right person to love or finding fault with those we already love, when instead we should be perfecting the love we give.
  • What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. Ellen Burstyn
  • What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. Mother Teresa
  • What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. Pearl Bailey
  • When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. Charles Reade
  • When the people we love are stolen from us, the only way to keep them is to never stop loving them. People die, buildings burn, but eternal love lasts forever, Anonymous
  • When you care about other people, you are more likely to know how to really love, and how to be loved back. Laura Shipler Chico (Social worker)
  • Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy, Martha Beck (Expecting Adam)
  • Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. Aristotle
  • Without real love there is no music, No songs, no stories worth singing about. Kenneth Edmonds
  • You can't make someone love you, all you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to the person to realize your worth.
  • You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories. Melanie Clark
  • You must feel love within, before you can share it. Denis Waitley
  • The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. --VICTOR HUGO
  • Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. --OSCAR WILDE
  • When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times. --MITCH ALBOM
  • Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story. --DAPHNE DU MAURIER
  • Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. --Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. --Lao-Tzu
  • Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. --Martin Luther King, Jr.



Dinah Maria Mulock Craik was one of the most successful women poets and novelists of the 19th century. She published her first work, “The Ogilvies,” in 1849 to critical acclaim, and soon garnered comparison to such influential writers as George Eliot. “The Ogilvies,” in which this quote appears, follows the romantic entanglements and subsequent marriages of three cousins (a popular 19th-century literary convention, as Jane Austen proved decades earlier). Craik’s words offer a timeless truism about love’s cyclical nature — that the care and compassion we give others, we’ll receive in kind. 





French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of the classic 1943 novel “The Little Prince,” wrote often on themes of love, suffering, and connection. Saint-Exupéry himself was known for his long, complex marriage to writer and artist Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, who inspired the character of the Rose in “The Little Prince.” In the book, the Prince and the Rose eventually realize that while they do love each other, they show it in different ways. With this line, Saint-Exupéry reminds us that true love should always feel nourishing.


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Lead With Love = So many people don’t know what love is. In Greek, there are words for 4 different types of love—romantic love, brotherly love, and the love between a parent and child. The 4th word for love—the type that represents a leadership principle—is Agape. This type of love is a verb, how you behave, not how you feel. Love is patient, kind, trusting, truthful, forgiving, unselfish, and it is dedicated to love in all circumstances. If you want to be a better servant leader, lead with love.


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Love Unconditionally = No matter what happens in life, having someone who will listen to you and love you, is unconditional love. Unconditional love is having someone you can go to and say anything to, and they will always love you. Nothing can replace unconditional love. 
Do You Love Unconditionally? = When you love unconditionally, the impact and influence can be tremendous. When you love, and are loved unconditionally, no matter what you say or do, you will always be loved. Nothing can replace unconditional love.


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There Is Value In Loving People = John shares with us that we need to love people, indicating that all of his previous lessons from his father are products of loving people. By adding value to people, traveling the high road, and encouraging others—all of these lessons are rooted in loving people.

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The Highest Compliment = Love others as you love yourself. There is so much power behind the word love, use it generously and wisely. 

It's Always About Others = When you stop loving your people, you have essentially concluded your ability to effectively lead them. While it is important to lead with authenticity, so your people believe in you, it is far more important for you to believe in your people. Your leadership depends on it. Without it, you might as well quit.




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Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Titus 3:5 "Twas not for deeds that we had done, but by his steadfast love alone, he saved us through a second birth, renewed us by the Spirit's work,
Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Galatians 2:20 with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;
John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
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