James Herriot Quotes

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

We decided that how we react to and treat those fellow mortals, wild and domestic, tells us more about ourselves than, perhaps, some of us want to know.

The act of feeling what you believe other people feel is morally corosive.... If we want to be good and caring people, if we want to make the world a better place, then we are better off withouit empathy.

You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.

We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time is running out, they don't care about possessions or status. They want to put things right if they've done wrong.

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

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.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.