| "An evil-minded man is quick to see his neighbor's faults, though small
as mustard-seed; but when he turns his eyes towards his own, though
large as Bilva fruit, he none descries." (Maha-bharata.) | | "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye,
but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" (Matt.
vii. 3.) |
| "Conquer a man who never gives by gifts; subdue untruthful men by
truthfulness; vanquish an angry man by gentleness; and overcome the evil
man by goodness." (Ibid.) | | "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good."
(Romans, xii. 21.) |
| "To injure none by thought or word or deed, to give to others, and be
kind to all—this is the constant duty of the good. High-minded men
delight in doing good, without a thought of their own interest; when
they confer a benefit on others, they reckon not on favors in return."
(Ibid.) | | "Love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing
again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the
children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful
and to the evil." (Luke, vii. 35.) |
"Two persons will hereafter be exalted above the heavens—the man with
boundless power, who yet forbears to use it indiscreetly, and he who is
not rich, and yet can give." (Ibid.)
"Just heaven is not so pleased with costly gifts, offered in hope of
future recompense, as with the merest trifle set apart from honest
gains, and sanctified by faith." (Ibid.) | | "And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how
people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich
cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she
threw in two mites, which make a farthing. And he called unto
him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you,
that this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which
have cast into the treasury: For all they did cast in of
their abundance, but she of her want did cast all that she
had, even all her living." (Mark, xii. 41-44.) |
| "To curb the tongue and moderate the speech, is held to be the hardest
of all tasks. The words of him who talk too volubly have neither
substance nor variety." (Ibid.) | | "But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of
deadly poison." (James, iii. 8.) |
| "Even to foes who visit us as guests due hospitality should be
displayed; the tree screens with its leaves, the man who fells it."
(Ibid.) | | "Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst,
give him drink; for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire
on his head." (Rom. xii. 20.) |
| "In granting or refusing a request, a man obtains a proper rule of
action by looking on his neighbor as himself." (Ibid.) | | "Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself." (Matt. xxii. 39.)
"And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them
likewise." (Luke vi. 31.) |
| "Before infirmities creep o'er thy flesh; before decay impairs thy
strength and mars the beauty of thy limbs; before the Ender, whose
charioteer is sickness, hastes towards thee, breaks up thy fragile frame
and ends thy life, lay up the only treasure: Do good deeds; practice
sobriety and self-control; amass that wealth which thieves cannot
abstract, nor tyrants seize, which follows thee at death, which never
wastes away, nor is corrupted." (Ibid.) | | "Remember now thy creator in the days of thy youth, while the
evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt
say: I have no pleasure in them." (Ecc. xii. 1.)
"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth
and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and
steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where
neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not
break through and steal." (Matt. vi. 19-20.) |
| "This is the sum of all true righteousness—Treat others as thou wouldst
thyself be treated. Do nothing to thy neighbor, which hereafter thou
would'st not have thy neighbor do to thee. In causing pleasure, or in
giving pain, in doing good or injury to others, in granting or refusing
a request, a man obtains a proper rule of action by looking on his
neighbor as himself." (Ibid.) | | "Ye have heard that it hath been said: Thou shall love thy
neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, love your
enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate
you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and
persecute you." (Matt. v. 43-44.)
"A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another:
as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." (John,
xii. 34.)
"Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." (Matt, xi 39.) |
"Wound not another, though by him provoked.
Do no one injury by thought or deed.
Utter no word to pain thy fellow-creatures."
"Pride not thyself on thy religious works.
Give to the poor, but talk not of thy gifts.
By pride religious merit melts away,
The merit of thy alms by ostentation."