Loving Others Quotes

“But what are loyalty and caring really worth?"
"To me? Everything.”
― Richelle Mead, The Golden Lily

“Sometimes, you will go through awful trials in your life and then a miracle happens--God heals you. Don’t be disheartened when the people you love don’t see things like you do. There will be Pharisees in your life that will laugh it off, deny that it happened, or will mock your experience based on righteousness they think you don't possess. God won't deny you a spiritual experience because you are not a spiritual leader. He loves everyone equal. The only people that really matter in life are the people that can “see” your heart and rejoice with you.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Each time a person passes by you and you say 'hello', imagine that person turning into a candle. The more positivity, love and light you reflect, the more light is mirrored your way. Sharing beautiful hellos is the quickest way to earn spiritual brownie points. You should start seeing hellos as small declarations of faith. Every time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.”
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

“Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.”
― Bill Johnson

“If you don't love yourself, you won't be happy with yourself. If you can't love yourself, you can't love anyone else. You can't give the love you do not have. You can't make anyone love you without loving yourself first.”
― Kemi Sogunle

“I just believe that us as women— should not criticize nor pull down other women. And why? Because we’re all just trying our best to be beautiful! We all just want to be loved, we want to be beautiful, we’re all trying to leave our own legacy! The good news is that the universe is unending and that means there is enough space for each woman on earth to leave her own mark and to be her own legacy. To be her own kind of beautiful. So why spend even a second on trying to take away from another woman? Trying to steal, trying to criticize, trying to oppress? There is enough space for every woman and every kind of beautiful, in this vast cosmos! When you waste any amount of time trying to take what is another’s— you are wasting your huge chunk of a galaxy that’s already been given to you!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“A positive attitude from you tends to produce a positive attitude toward you.”
― Deborah Day

“Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“No human being should be maltreated under any circumstances. We are all wonderful creation of God. May we affectionately love one another.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Treat your relationship as if you are growing the most beautiful sacred flower. Keep watering it, tend to the roots, and always make sure the petals are full of color and are never curling. Once you neglect your plant, it will die, as will your relationship.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“If you spend time judging and criticizing people, you will not have time to heal from your pain or brokenness. You cannot love yourself when you judge or criticize others who are created in God's image and after His Likeness...in which you are also created. Love cannot operate from a space of pain. Love and hurt cannot reside in the same space.”
― Kemi Sogunle, Beyond the Pain by Kemi Sogunle

“I Loved One, Not Many ; Many Loved It, Not One”
― Syed Sharukh

“It is a bit of a mess, this business of love. As more and more people enter our lives, we are left with no choice but to enter theirs as well. Even more so, over time their pains become our pain and their joys become our joy and this sharing of the Gospel becomes a sharing of life. This, at first glance, seems so burdensome, so overwhelming, but somehow I have found it to not be any longer. Something about shouldering the burdens of another brings a lightness to our own affliction. We are in it together, and Christ is in it with us.”
― Katie Davis Majors, Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful

“Because the memories we leave with people matter just as much as the time spent with them”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“The point of our Earthly journey is to create and express our loving spirit.”
― Sonia Choquette, Diary of a Psychic: Shattering the Myths

“You cannot be a light to others or yourself if you have dark intentions in your heart.”
― Kemi Sogunle, On Becoming Restored

“... was Aunt Evie very upset when you told her about the letter?"
"No. Only concerned for the boy's sake, and mine as well."
"Many women in her position would consider him as... well, an embarrassment."
That drew a real smile from him, the first she'd seen from him in a while. "You know Evie. She already thinks of him as someone else to love.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Disguise

“If you can't be out here and love on these people who have nothing to offer you, then you're not ready to serve. You need to trust that I am going to provide for you.' [God]”
― Ryan Stevenson, Eye of the Storm: Experiencing God When You Can't See Him

“Those who are easily offended rarely understand others.”
― Brother Pedro

“It is a bit of a mess, this business of love. As more and more people enter our lives, we are left with no choice but to enter theirs as well. Even more so, over time their pains become our pain and their joys become out joy and this sharing of the Gospel becomes a sharing of life. This, at first glance, seems so burdensome, so overwhelming, but somehow I have found it to not be any longer. Something about shouldering the burdens of another brings a lightness to our own affliction. We are in it together, and Christ is in it with us.”
― Katie Davis Majors, Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful

“I think that's one of the biggest signs a person has matured - knowing how to appreciate things that matter to others, even if they don't matter very much to you.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“There are worse things than having a loving family and community coming out to support you.”
― Elizabeth Camden, Carved in Stone

“Before I quit my job, I overheard my Boss say some nasty stuff about trans. When I didn't show up for work the next day he called me and asked where I was. I said, "I'm right next to you." He said, "No you're not. I don't see you." So I replied, "That's because I'm a Transparent.”
― James Hauenstein

“We who follow Jesus cannot simply use the label Biblical to justify our desire to punish, exclude, or control others. As important as it is, the Bible is not our Lord and Savior—Jesus is. The standard by which we measure our actions is not 'Is it Biblical?' but 'Is it Christlike?”
― Marc Alan Schelske, Walking Otherward: Forty Meditations on Following Jesus’ Path of Other-centered, Co-suffering Love

“If Jesus is a revelation of the Father’s nature, then we know something new about God that humanity didn’t always know. God is not into coercion. God draws. God persuades. God invites. Those walking the other-centered, co-suffering way of Jesus are invited to this same commitment.”
― Marc Alan Schelske, Walking Otherward: Forty Meditations on Following Jesus’ Path of Other-centered, Co-suffering Love

“On the steps of Pilate’s palace, two men stood: One, a peaceful teacher who invited others to a new life marked by other-centered, co-suffering love—the other, a likely revolutionary who attempted to bring freedom through violence. The crowd was invited to choose. At that moment, and in so many moments since, the crowd picked the path of expediency and the long-standing human dream of peace through retributive violence. The way of Jesus challenges us to choose the harder path.”
― Marc Alan Schelske, Walking Otherward: Forty Meditations on Following Jesus’ Path of Other-centered, Co-suffering Love

“Love has no use for coercion. It does no violence. Truth doesn’t play the games of corrupt politicians. As more and more people choose to follow Jesus’ way of love and truth,∗ empires of violence and corruption lose their power.”
― Marc Alan Schelske, Walking Otherward: Forty Meditations on Following Jesus’ Path of Other-centered, Co-suffering Love

“Even in the darkest places of pain, God is present. Even in our most isolating, humiliating experiences, God is with us. If God is with us in our painful powerlessness, then surely God is with the others. All the others. The ones we would rather not look in the eye. The ones we dismiss as the inevitable casualties of maintaining a society that is comfortable for us. The ones we think had it coming. The ones that power crushes.”
― Marc Alan Schelske, Walking Otherward: Forty Meditations on Following Jesus’ Path of Other-centered, Co-suffering Love

“It’s one thing to see the cross as God’s tragic sacrifice to benefit me eternally. It’s an entirely different thing to see the cross as God standing with all of humanity and inviting us to do the same.”
― Marc Alan Schelske, Walking Otherward: Forty Meditations on Following Jesus’ Path of Other-centered, Co-suffering Love