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Please enjoy these Quotes about Admirable and Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
What is admirable about those
who have been of great service to humanity
is not that they suffered in being of service,
but that they found their source of happiness
(joy if you prefer) in that service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Inspirational Service
Use heroes as a springboard for inquiry
into the identity and nature of admirably human qualities.
Do not judge heroes -
neither to put them unquestioningly on a pedestal
nor to unkindly probe their flaws.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy,
to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter,
and to lead but not manipulate.
- William Arthur Ward
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
When I admire the wonders of a sunset
or the beauty of the moon,
my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
He has all of the virtues I dislike,
and none of the vices I admire.
- Winston Churchill
Men admire the man who can organize
their wishes and thoughts
in stone and wood and steel and brass.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only things one can admire at length
are those one admires without knowing why.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
My religion consists of a humble admiration
of the illimitable superior spirit
who reveals himself in the slight details we are able
to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
- Albert Einstein
Our admiration of the antique
is not admiration of the old,
but of the natural.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
I love you when you bow in your mosque,
kneel in your temple, pray in your church.
For you and I are sons of one religion,
and it is the Spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast,
It is not proud. It does not dishonor others,
It is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered,
It keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
- Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV)
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
If you have a particular faith or religion,
that is good. But you can survive without it.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Compassion and generosity must be the heart of any true religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This too, shall pass.
- Bible
You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono
Every formula of every religion has, in this age of reason,
to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
All major religious traditions
carry basically the same message,
that is love, compassion and forgiveness.
The important thing is they should
be part of our daily lives.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person
to reconcile himself to the idea that
after all God will not help him
- H. L. Mencken
To a very young child, mommy and daddy are gods.
We spend our lives looking to regain
that sense of being cared for and protected.
Thus religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits
either good or evil, nor do I serve any.
- Lao Tzu
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
We must be ready to learn from one another,
not claiming that we alone possess all truth
and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
From the solemn gloom of the temple
children run out to sit in the dust,
God watches them play and forgets the priest.
- Rabindranath Tagore
To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- Proverbs 23:7
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -
you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you believe in forever,
then life is just a one night stand.
- The Righteous Brothers
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal
to reason and is in conflict with morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Even in the Christian religion,
much of its real meaning is hidden by words
that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
- Ernest Holmes
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Instead of being presented with stereotypes
by age, sex, color, class, or religion,
children must have the opportunity
to learn that within each range,
some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
- Margaret Mead
Oh, if only God would give me some sign.
If He would just speak to me once. Anything.
One sentence. Two words. If He would just cough.
- the movie Love and Death
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
Anyone who thinks sitting in church
can make you a Christian must also think
that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
- Garrison Keillor
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
- Matthew 7:7
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