Quotes about Respect

How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you.

is chosen freely, not imposed from without. Essentially, submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time. Submission means putting the needs, rights, and welfare of another person ahead of our own. A marriage built on this kind of submission will grow healthy, strong, and fulfilling.

make sure we are doing justice and honour to scripture itself, rather than simply using it within schemes of our own making.

The rules of charity and conscience are there, not to nail down a one-size-fits-all rule-book but precisely to enable mutual respect and shared worship in the absence of such a thing.

The fact is, successful relationships and healthy cultures are not built on the claiming of rights but on the yielding of rights.

Your Name is holy. May Your Name be worshiped and honored by Your people everywhere. May our lives in no way bring disrespect or dishonor to your great Name. And may all peoples of the earth come to revere Your sacred Name.

The first step in conforming our intellect to God's truth is to die to our vanity, pride, and craving for respect from colleagues and the public. We must let go of the worldly motivations that drive us, praying to be motivated solely by a genuine desire to submit our minds to God's Word - and then to use that knowledge in service to others.

I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.

To be free is to not merely cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Character is how you treat people when they can do nothing for you.

What freedom am I being offered when my very South African citizenship is not respected?