Quotes about Respect

When my need to appear right is greater than my desire to display God's love, I will inevitably treat people with judgment, disrespect and harshness.

Let us always love the best in others—and never fear their worst.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

You must all follow the lead of the bishop, as Jesus Christ followed that of the Father; follow the presbytery as you would the Apostles; reverence the deacons as you would God's commandment.

Imagine for a moment the result if everyone were to love one another as Jesus loves his disciples. We would have no bickering, quarreling, strife, or contention in our homes. We would not offend or insult one another either verbally or in any other way. We would not have unnecessary litigation over small matters.

There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.

A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.

The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.