Haaz Sleiman Quotes

As Christians we need to be patient, understanding, and kind. Instead of going on the attack, we can ask genuine questions. Instead of bristling when our narrative is summarily dismissed, we can carefully explain our way of seeing things. And when we are wrong, we won't be afraid to say so.

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness.

Christians are to love their neighbors as we love ourselves.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility.

I'm one of those people that hates to cut at anyone's love.

Billy Graham talks about how he doesn't judge people. I don't either. Some people I am just pissed at.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.

Where ever the spirit of Christ is known, there is much of good will, of mutual respect, of love and appreciation and kindness.

It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.

The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.

I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.

I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple. Jesus didn't go around condemning people.

He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.

Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.

I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

If only Jesus' followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.

My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

I believe in unconditional love and equality. Jesus Christ exemplified these qualities.