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QUOTATIONS ARCHIVE

This Quotations Archive contains words from famous and some not so famous people who have expressed a sense of love, compassion, and respect for all of God's creation: for people, for animals, and for the environment. They speak of our teaching methods and philosophy. They speak of a lifestyle of non-violence. They seek to eliminate cruelty and suffering. They seek to wake us up. They seek to give us hope.

weeds.jpg (7092 bytes) St. John Chrysostom
(A.D. 347-407)

"The Saints are exceedingly loving and gentle to mankind, and even to brute beasts ... surely we ought to show them (animals) great kindness and gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they are of the same origin as ourselves."
~Homilies

"Holy people are most loving and gentle in their dealings with their fellows, and even with the lower animals: for this reason it was said that ‘A righteous man is merciful to the life of his beast…’" (Proverbs 12:10)

"Surely we ought to show kindness and gentleness to animals for many reasons and chiefly because they are of the same origin as ourselves."

"We imitate the ways of wolves, the ways of leopards, or rather we are worse than these. For nature has assigned that they should be thus fed, but us God hath honored with speech and a sense of equity, yet we are worse than the wild beasts."

"We the Christian leaders practice abstinence from the flesh of animals to subdue our bodies…the unnatural eating of flesh-meat is of demonical origin…the eating of flesh is polluting."

"…flesh-meats and wine serve as materials for sensuality, and are a source of danger, sorrow, and disease."

Snow Goose Photo by Sue Holloway - Creatured Connection
Watercolor painting "Wetland Weeds" by Mary T. Hoffman

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