Quotes about Respect

When someone begins to gossip to you, have the courage to say, "Please stop. I don't need to know this. Have you talked directly to that person?" People who gossip to you will also gossip about you. They cannot be trusted.

God expects unity, not uniformity, and we can walk arm-in-arm without seeing eye-to-eye on every issue.

True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger on his own terms, and asserts that it can be offered only by those who 'have found the center of their lives in their own hearts'.

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.

I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

I say to myself, if the text was good enough for my father and grandfather, it must be good enough for me. I admit, that is a rather personal way of approaching the text - or a prayer.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.

Between friends there is no bribery. ... the relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.