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I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion. -- Ron Reagan
Heaven is not a place for people who trust in religious works and set aside The Righteous Justice, Loving Kindness, Grace and Mercy of GOD. -- Errol Anthony Smythe
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
Loving kindness is the spirit of friendship toward yourself and others. -- Sharon Salzberg
Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit. -- Nhat Hanh
When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit. -- Rumi
Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness . -- Dalai Lama
Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others. -- Pema Chodron
Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts. -- Confucius
It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us. -- Tertullian
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Spurgeon
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
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
It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community -a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the earth. -- Nhat Hanh
If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology. -- Karen Armstrong
Once you have established yourself as a center of love and kindness radiating throughout your being, which amounts to a cradling of yourself in loving kindness and acceptance, you can dwell here indefinitely, drinking at this fount, bathing it in, renewing yourself, nourishing yourself, enlivening yourself. This can be a profoundly healing practice for body and soul. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
May we ever watch over one another, assisting in times of need. Let us not be critical and judgmental, but let us be tolerant, ever emulating the Savior's example of loving-kindness. In that vein, may we willingly serve one another. May we pray for the inspiration to know of the needs of those around us, and then may we go forward and provide assistance. -- Thomas S. Monson
Mentally, physically and emotionally we are the same. We each have the potential to good and bad and to be overcome by disturbing emotions such as anger, fear, hatred, suspicion and greed. These emotions can be the cause of many problems. On the other hand if you cultivate loving kindness, compassion and concern for others, there will be no room for anger, hatred and jealousy. -- Dalai Lama
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. -- Joseph Joubert
We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life. -- George A. Smith
Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not. -- Dan Millman
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
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
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
Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that. -- Susan Vreeland
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
Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be. -- Susan Hill
We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found. -- Sharon Salzberg
Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth. -- Saint Basil
Practice loving kindness wherever you may go. -- Heather Wolf
Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Thank God for his loving kindness and tender mercies. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I practice loving-kindness meditation, which cultivates compassion and equanimity. -- Sarah MacLean
Even a little gift may be vast with loving kindness. -- Theocritus
There can never be too much loving kindness or chesed. -- Heather Wolf
Be loving and kind. Call everyone to your table of kindness. -- Ma Jaya
Just a little loving kindness is sometimes all anyone really needs. -- Heather Wolf
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. -- Joseph Joubert
Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God. -- Evelyn Underhill
A word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift. -- Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Loving friends let kindness grow in their hearts, creating a oneness with their souls. -- Tom Baker
To combat hatred directed toward a person, a Buddhist cultivates loving kindness toward that person. -- Dalai Lama
All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters. -- bell hooks
It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are. -- Sharon Salzberg
Loving-kindness is required, but a follower of Christ-just like the Master-will be firm in the truth. -- Dallin H. Oaks
Everyone around you becomes kind and loving when you express your kindness and beauty of love. -- Debasish Mridha
The more you nurture a feeling of loving kindness, the happier and calmer you will be. -- Dalai Lama
Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions. -- Nhat Hanh
The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment. -- Dalai Lama
Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness. -- Sharon Salzberg
Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate. -- Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you. -- Confucius
People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving. -- Debasish Mridha
To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all. -- Thich Thien-An
To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves"?and each other. -- Michelle Cruz
Loneliness cannot be alleviated just by the coming together of two bodies, unless there is also good communication, understanding, and loving kindness. -- Nhat Hanh
The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Be wise. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others. -- Thubten Yeshe
The activity of loving kindness is the bridge that allows you to slowly, slowly realise the wisdom and perfection of this moment. -- Tony Samara
Our problems are not solved by physical force, by hatred, by warOur problems are solved by loving kindness by gentleness, by joy -- Gautama Buddha
Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. -- Joseph Joubert
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
The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard. -- Henry David Thoreau
The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard -- Henry David Thoreau
Just as compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free of suffering, loving-kindness is the wish that all may enjoy happiness. -- Dalai Lama
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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
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
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
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
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
By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart. -- Tara Brach
Wisdom is a true activity of compassion. And so, meditation is the act of loving kindness. It is the activity where loving kindness is applied on all levels. -- Tony Samara
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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