Top 100 Quotes About Loving Kindness
#1. Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings.
Sharon Salzberg
#2. Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment. There always is the potential to create an environment of blame -or one that is conducive to loving-kindness.
Pema Chodron
#3. Let us remember the loving-kindness of the Lord and rehearse His deeds of grace. Let us open the volume of recollection, which is so richly illuminated with memories of His mercy, and we will soon be happy.
Alistair Begg
#4. Loving-kindness is required, but a follower of Christ-just like the Master-will be firm in the truth.
Dallin H. Oaks
#5. Change that does not lead to liberation from fear, greed and delusion is not wholesome. Furthermore, any change that does not yield more compassion and loving-kindness for yourself and others is a waste of precious life energy.
Phillip Moffitt
#6. Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.
Nella Larsen
#7. Be wise. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others.
Thubten Yeshe
#8. Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.
Marcus Aurelius
#9. All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.
Bell Hooks
#10. Father of mercy and God of all consolation, graciously look upon me and impart to me the blessing which flows from this holy Sacrament. Overshadow me with Your loving kindness, and let this divine Mystery bear fruit in me.
Saint Blaise
#11. The more you nurture a feeling of loving kindness, the happier and calmer you will be.
Dalai Lama
#12. Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard, they begin their practice with a benefactor. This too is fine. The rule in loving kindness practice is to follow the way that most easily opens your heart.
Jack Kornfield
#13. What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts ...
Robert E.Lee
#14. To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all.
Thich Thien-An
#15. Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities - those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness.
Nhat Hanh
#16. It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
Tertullian
#17. There can never be too much loving kindness or chesed.
Heather Wolf
#18. Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.
Marlena De Blasi
#19. O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#20. Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.
Confucius
#21. Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness.
Dalai Lama XIV
#22. Loss of safe harbor, refuge of grace, where loving-kindness rues one day like another.
B.G. Brainard
#23. Practice loving kindness wherever you may go.
Heather Wolf
#24. The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a trans-formative strength,
Sharon Salzberg
#25. Have recourse trustfully to Gods loving kindness and He will not forsake you, for He longs to bestow His graces. Though you may have had the misfortune to offend Him, He is always ready to receive you, provided you return humbly to Him.
Margaret Mary Alacoque
#26. Each one of us is responsible for other living beings' happiness, besides our own. As a result, your loving kindness is the most wish-fulfilling thing in life, more precious than anything else in this world. That makes for a most satisfying, fulfilling life.
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
#27. Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.
Sharon Salzberg
#28. Since karma is meeting self, we acquire karma as we meet self in our many attitudes and emotions; when we serve in loving kindness and patience or hold resentful malicious thoughts What we do to our fellow man we do to our Maker our karma or problem is within self.
Edgar Cayce
#29. Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference - in our own lives and those of others.
Sharon Salzberg
#30. However, for Hardy the possibility of poetry's traditional function of transcendence remains, but in a more limited form. In Hardy's work the poet transcends himself towards humanity, affirming the central values of loving-kindness and fellowship.
Geoffrey Harvey
#31. Even a little gift may be vast with loving kindness.
Theocritus
#32. I loved reading the Dalai Lama's words: "My religion is loving-kindness." I realized that meant loving-kindness to everyone in my life: past, present, and future; and that meant loving-kindness to myself
in my pain, in my jealousy, in my fear.
Elizabeth Kim
#33. What is most important is to go deep into ourselves and discover the loving kindness and compassion of the buddha within - the awakened nature we all possess.
Shinjo Ito
#34. To combat hatred directed toward a person, a Buddhist cultivates loving kindness toward that person.
Dalai Lama
#35. We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
George A. Smith
#36. The way to peace, harmony and balance for the planet is through the loving kindness of each individual heart.
Laurence Overmire
#37. Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.
Pema Chodron
#38. It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.
Sharon Salzberg
#39. Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.
Confucius
#40. Without loving-kindness, staying in pain is just warfare.
Pema Chodron
#41. Allow the light and the healing presence of Christ to shine brightly through your lives. In that way, all those who come in contact with you will discover the loving kindness of God.
Pope John Paul II
#42. Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.
Hudson Taylor
#43. This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it as being still greater than we had seen before.
Karl Barth
#44. I draw a lot from Buddhism, which focuses on compassion and kindness, loving kindness, as they call it, but rejects empathy because it's a poor moral guide. And I think there's a lot of evidence suggesting that they're right.
Paul Bloom
#45. Animosity does not eradicate animosity. Only by loving kindness is animosity dissolved. This law is ancient and eternal. (attributed to Buddha)
Ananda Maitreya
#46. The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God's loving-kindness.
Charles Spurgeon
#48. Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.
Confucius
#49. If you can't pass on a little loving-kindness in this world, you might as well be a gopher in a hole.
Ross Macdonald
#50. You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
Jack Kornfield
#51. You only tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of loving-kindness and nothing could be sweeter.
Michael Josephson
#52. Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
Evelyn Underhill
#53. Let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight, says the LORD.
Anonymous
#54. For an aspiring bodhisattva, the essential practice is to cultivate maitri, or loving-kindness.
Pema Chodron
#55. Whatever grounds there are for making merit productive of a future birth, all these do not equal a sixteenth part of the liberation of mind by loving-kindness. The liberation of mind by loving-kindness surpasses them and shines forth, bright and brilliant.
Gautama Buddha
#56. Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong
Sharon Salzberg
#57. Forgive me not according to my unworthiness, but according to thy loving kindness.
Leo Tolstoy
#58. If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.
Gautama Buddha
#59. Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.
Saint Bernard
#60. The way of loving kindness is what is to be accepted. Love! The benefit is clear. Rage, hate are the way of chaos and darkness - to be rejected.
Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
#61. Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate.
Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
#62. Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.
Dan Millman
#63. Though Destiny a hundred times waylays you,in the end it pitches a tent for you in Heaven.
It is God's loving kindness to terrify you,in order to lead you to His Kingdom of safety.
Rumi
#65. Loving-kindness challenges those states that tend to arise when we think of ourselves as isolated from everyone else - fear, a sense of deficiency, alienation, loneliness.
Sharon Salzberg
#66. When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.
Rumi
#67. When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away.
Sharon Salzberg
#68. The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.
Mahatma Gandhi
#69. If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.
Nhat Hanh
#70. May I be filled with loving-kindness. May I be well. May I be peaceful and at ease. May I be happy.
Jack Kornfield
#71. If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that's kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it's Loving Kindness.
Barbara Johnson
#72. With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be.
Sharon Salzberg
#73. For twenty years or more, nothing but loving words, and gentle moralities, and motherly loving kindness, had come from that chair;
headaches and heartaches innumerable had been cured there,
difficulties spritual and temporal solved there,
all by one good, loving woman, God bless her!
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#74. Love is nothing but felicity and loving kindness,
It is nothing but gladness and right guidance.
Rumi
#75. Buddhism is more a philosophy for living rather than a religion or dogma - it's about being awake, free from illusions and fear, so that compassion and loving kindness permeates all of our relationships.
Charlotte Kasl
#77. The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.
Dalai Lama
#78. There is a clear correlation between how we treat each other and how a watching world will feel about Jesus. What should our neighbors deduce from our loving-kindness toward one another? One, that we obviously belong to Jesus, because what other explanation exists for such beautiful community?
Jen Hatmaker
#79. I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.
Ron Reagan
#80. When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that I could lie for centuries and wait for the dawning of the face of God out of the awe-inspiring loving-kindness.
George MacDonald
#81. It's not just philosophy, not just words; it's knowing how the mind functions; only then can you develop loving-kindness; only then can you become a spiritual person.
Thubten Yeshe
#82. Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.
Nhat Hanh
#83. If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.
Nhat Hanh
#84. Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit.
Nhat Hanh
#85. Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.
Pope John Paul II
#86. Compassion Judgment Loving-Kindness Compassion Is A Force Disconnection Self-Blame and Compassion Praise and Blame
Sharon Salzberg
#87. To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves - and each other.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#88. I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.
Lewis Carroll
#89. Where there is anger, apply loving kindness. Where there is evil, offer good. Where there is stinginess, be generous. Where there are lies, be truthful.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#90. Over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind. Page 62
Sharon Salzberg
#91. Loving kindness practice helps us move out of the terrain of our default narratives if they tend to be based on fear or disconnection. We become authors of brand-new stories about love.
Sharon Salzberg
#92. Cultivating loving kindness for ourselves is the foundation of real love for our friends and family, for new people we encounter in our daily lives, for all beings and for life itself.
Sharon Salzberg
#93. The energy of mindfulness has the element of friendship and loving kindness in it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#94. I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others - we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.
Charles Spurgeon
#95. Our problems are not solved by physical force, by hatred, by warOur problems are solved by loving kindness by gentleness, by joy
Gautama Buddha
#96. Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path
Abdu'l- Baha
#97. Loving kindness is the spirit of friendship toward yourself and others.
Sharon Salzberg
#98. May you be happy, may you be well
may you be peaceful and at ease
may you be filled with loving kindness
And compassion for all beingslk
Morihei Ueshiba
#99. Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win.
Martha Stout
#100. But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our way of being and living.
Nhat Hanh
