Rebecca Gibney quotes

Rebecca Gibney quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Mum always taught us that compassion and kindness were the most important things in life, that it was better to be kind than right.”
-- Rebecca Gibney

#Motivation Quotes #Kindness Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history, only relatively few individuals in any generation have been willing and able to make the gesture that is true religion (or, otherwise, true esotericism). In their great numbers, most people have, up to now, never yet been ready or willing to adapt to the true (and progressive) practical, moral, devotional, Spiritual, and Transcendental Wisdom-culture of right life.”
“They say before you make something happen you have to see it yourself. I have been seeing it for a long time and I am living my dream.”
“The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.”

Source : "No, Everything Doesn’t Happen for a Reason" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2012.
“A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.”

Source : "Adrien Brody: The quiet American". Interview with Alex Clark, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2012.
“to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.”
“What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away? No, of course not! Holiness in the Bible means moral wholeness-- a positive quality which actually includes kindness, mercy, purity, moral blamelessness and godliness. It is always to be thought of in a positive, white intensity of degree.”
“The Srimad-Bhagavatam states that any bona fide preacher of God consciousness must have the qualities of titiksa (tolerance) and karuna (compassion). In the character of Lord Jesus Christ we find both these qualities.”
“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”
“Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.”
“Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.”

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