When a man honours his father and mother, God says, “I regard it as though I had dwelt among them and they had honoured me."
Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people’s hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human ‘brain’ with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human ‘heart’ with compassion.
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent school-masters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. One must practice the virtues taught in such books in order to acquire love of God.
The wise are wise only because they love. Fools are fools only because they think they can understand love.
God Himself told me that the most basic and central truth of the universe is that God is the Father and we are His children. We are all created as children of God.
