Loving and bearing with others; forbearance, forgiveness, kindness, and mercy; covering the faults of our brethren.
- Love is not affectionate feeling C. S. Lewis
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
- Charity of Age J.R.R. Tolkien
For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more—remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men’s hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very …
- Love is Vulnerable C. S. Lewis
There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of …
- Sing more! Charles Spurgeon
We need more singing!
Sing more and murmur less!
Sing more and slander less!
Sing more and cavil less!
Sing more and mourn less!
- Tokens of a Little and Narrow Mind John Newton
In effect, to be much taken up with the interests of self, to live upon the breath of others, to be full of resentment for every injury, and watchful to retaliate it; …
- Gentle Spirit Required for Correcting Others John Calvin
No man is prepared for chastising a brother till he has succeeded in acquiring a gentle spirit.
- Ignorance of our own Faults John Calvin
Ignorance of our own faults is the only cause that renders us unwilling to forgive our brethren.
- In Humility Philippians 2:3-4
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also …
- Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 12:15 Matthew Henry
[Paul] did not abate in his love to them, notwithstanding their unkindness and ingratitude to him; and therefore was contented and glad to take pains with them, though …
- On 2 Corinthians 12:15 Matthew Henry
This is applicable to other relations: if others be wanting in their duty to us it does not follow therefore that we may neglect our duty to them.
- Tender Heart John Lorimer
It is only true piety which, during a long succession of years, will sustain the heart in tenderness to the poor amid trials and difficulties, and which will uphold the …
- Observing Your Own Failings John Newton
The zealous Christian is strictly observant of his own failings, candid and tender to the faults of others; he knows what allowances are due to the frailty of human …
- The Fountain of All Duties John Owen
Love is the fountain of all duties toward God and man (Matt. 22: 37), the substance of all rules that concern the saints, the bond of communion, ”the fulfilling of the …
- Having the Patience of God John Owen
Suppose your God should be angry every time you gave Him cause and struck every time you provoked Him!
When your brother offends you, restrain your heart until you take a …
- To Never Speak Unfavorably Hiram Goodrich
He never allowed himself, even in the retirement of his own family, to speak unfavorably of the absent, and whenever any person told him the faults of another, he was …
- Merciful Silence John Newton
The Lord has mercifully kept us from the knowledge of each other’s hearts, any farther than we are willing to disclose ourselves.
If every man was compelled to speak all …
- A Truth to Be Observed John Calvin
This truth ought to be carefully observed, that they who are too rigid towards their brethren, provoke against themselves the severity of God.
- Contest Among Christians Richard Sibbes
It would be a good contest amongst Christians, one to labour to give no offence, and the other to labour to take none.
The best men are severe to themselves, tender over …
- Mercy with Cheerfulness Apostle Paul
… the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
- Training our Sons Joel Beeke
Our sons need our training not to respond to unkindness with unkindness, but rather to remember Christ, who was never combative or defensive, but ever loving, kind, and …
- Impeded acts of kindness John Calvin
…for nothing impedes and checks acts of kindness more than when any one is too much swallowed up with himself, so that he has no care for others, and follows only his own …
- Be Merciful Jesus
For He is gracious to the ungrateful and evil. Be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.
- The Longsuffering of God John Newton
[The Lord] knows our frame and how to bear with us though we can hardly bear with ourselves, or with one another.
- Could We Bear from One Another? John Newton
Could we bear from one another,
What He daily bears from us?
Yet this glorious Friend and Brother,
Loves us though we treat Him thus:
Though for good we render ill,
He …
- Sibbes on The Best Men Richard Sibbes
The best men are severe to themselves, tender over others.
- Easy to Love in Memory John Updike
It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.
- First Among You Jesus
…whoever would be first among you must be slave of all.
- By Love, Bury Their Faults John Calvin
How it is possible that one who is in reality distinguished above others can reckon those to be superior to him who he knows are greatly beneath him?
Let him… employ …
- Footsteps of Christ John Owen
Meekness, patience, forbearance, and forgiveness, hiding, covering, removing of offenses—these are the footsteps of Christ.
Do you see your brother fail? Pity him. Does …
- Love Be Our Guide John Owen
Let pity, not envy… mercy, not malice… patience, not passion… Christ, not flesh… grace, not nature… pardon, not spite or revenge…
…be our guides and companions in our …
- The Early Christians J. Gresham Machen
The early Christians, to the astonishment of their neighbors, lived a strange new kind of life—a life of honesty, of purity and of unselfishness.
- The Greatest Kindness Matthew Henry
The greatest kindness we can do for those that are fearful and faint-hearted is to pray for them, and so to recommend them to the mighty grace of God.
- Paul’s Fervency in Prayer Donald A. Carson
[Paul’s] unaffected fervency in prayer is not whipped-up emotionalism but the overflow of his love for his brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus. That means that if we are …
- Eating and Christian Friendship Joel Beeke, Michael Haykin
Friends multiply their joys by sharing them. One of the most basic ways is by eating together. Don’t overspiritualize Christian friendship; two of its most important …
- The Graces of a Good Deacon RC Reed
To avoid friction between members, to promote happy pastorates, and to develope the grace of liberality, nothing is more important than a good deacon, one who can be …
- Building Our Kingdom Paul David Tripp
It is when we love God more than we love ourselves and when we quit building our own little kingdom and start seeking his that we will love our spouse.
- All Christians are Brethren Richard Sibbes
All Christians are brethren. The greatest men in the world, the mountains, if they be Christians, they are brethren to the lowest. And it fills up the valleys. The …
- Sorrows and Joys of One Another Matthew Henry
True love will interest us in the sorrows and joys of one another, and teach us to make them our own.
- Loveth Thee Best George Swinnock
He that hates thy sins most, loveth thee best.
- Effective Love Kevin DeYoung
Effective love is rarely efficient.
- Observe their Graces Richard Baxter
Observe their graces more than their infirmities. You cannot love them unless you take notice of that goodness which is their loveliness. Overlooking and extenuating the …
- Lewis on Love of Neighbor C. S. Lewis
The rule for all of us is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you ’love’ your neighbour; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the …
- Small Talk and the Heart David Powlison
Something as innocuous, as seemingly meaningless, careless, casual as small talk, when you take it apart, bears a freight of profound messages that every word you say and …
- C. S. Lewis on Friendship C. S. Lewis
Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I …
- Job’s Friends Joel Beeke
The best thing Job’s friends did was sit with him, weep with him, mourn with him, and keep silence with him for seven days.
- Planning to Give Kevin DeYoung
Almost no one will give faithfully and generously without planning to give faithfully and generously.
- Civility for Salvation? Thomas Watson
Civility is a good staff to walk among men, but it is a bad ladder to climb to heaven.
- Serve One Another Apostle Peter
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace.
- Singing Augustine of Hippo
Singing belongs to one who loves.
- Commandments not Burdensome John the Evangelist
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.