Some important quotes that not only reflect how I feel, but are how I live my life.


If a man say, I love God,
and hateth his brother, he is a liar:
for he that loveth not his brother
whom he hath seen, how can he love
God whom he hath not seen?
And this commandment have we from him,
That he who loveth God
love his brother also.
-- 1 John 4:20,21

"Darkn ...ess cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence,
and toughness multiplies toughness
in a descending spiral of destruction...
The chain reaction of evil -- hate begetting hate,
wars producing more wars -- must be broken,
or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
(Psalm 27:1)
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
(Matthew 5:11,12)

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
--Mahatma Gandhi

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
- Mahatma Gandhi


"...the man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic-the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done." (1891)
Theodore Roosevelt

"I have told you all this so that you may find peace in me. In the world you WILL have trouble, but be brave: I have conquered the world."
John 16:33
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
--Helen Keller

They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
--Job 8:22

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
(Matthew 5:43-47)

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
--John 13:34,35

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
(Romans 8:6)

One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt

A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
--Proverbs 15:1

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
--Ephesians 4:31, 32

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
--James 1:19, 20


Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
-- Albert Einstein.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
(Matthew 6:14,15)
But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
(Luke 6:35-37)


"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Edmund Burke

"I AM ONLY ONE. I CAN NOT DO EVERYTHING, BUT I CAN DO SOMETHING. AND BECAUSE I CAN NOT DO EVERYTHING, I WILL NOT REFUSE TO DO THE SOMETHING I CAN DO. WHAT I CAN DO, I SHOULD DO. AND WHAT I SHOULD DO, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, I WILL DO."

EDWARD EVERETT HALE