Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!

Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time.

Love doesn't keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn't bring up past failures. (1 Cor 13:5)

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.

I choose kindness... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me

What is called generosity is really compassion. In the Shin'ei it is written "Seen from the eye of compassion, there is noone to be disliked. One who has sinned is to be pitied all the more." There is no limit to the breadth and depth of ones heart. There is room enough for all. That we still worship the sages of the three ancient kingdoms is because their compassion reaches us yet today.

All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.

I try to embrace people with love, unconditional love, like Christ did.

I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.

At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.

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

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

People do not want what we have in our pockets half as much as they want what is in our hearts. If we combine both, intelligently, however, according to our means, we give wisely and well.

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.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

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.

Develop a mind so filled with love that it resembles space.

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.