"Be kind to all people, love humanity, consider all mankind as your relations and servants of the most high God."

Baha'i Faith
Abdu'l-Baha
Foundations of World Unity, p. 73

 
As a mother with her own life guards the life of her own child, let all-embracing embracing thoughts for all that lives be thine.

Buddhism
Khuddaka Patha, Metta Sutta

The bodhisattva should adopt the same attitude towards all beings, his mind should be even towards all beings, he should not handle others with an uneven mind, but with a mind which is friendly, well-disposed, helpful, free from aversions avoiding harm and hurts, he should handle others as if they were his mother, father, son, or daughter. As a savior of all beings should a bodhisattva behave towards all beings. So should he train himself if he wants to know full enlightenment.

Buddhism
Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines 321-22

A new commandment I give to you, That ye  love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.  By this all men will know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

Christianity
St. John 14 34-35
King James Version

When a stranger sojourns with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.  But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

 Christianity and Judaism
Leviticus 19.33-34
King James Version

Of the adage, Only a good man knows how to like people, knows how to dislike them, Confucius said, "He whose heart is in the smallest degree set upon Goodness will dislike no one."

Confucianism
Analects 4.3-4

The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.

Confucianism
Analects 6.28.2

What sort of religion can it be without compassion?  You need to show compassion to all living beings.  Compassion is the root of all religious faiths.

Hinduism
Basavanna, Vachana 247

Be kind to parents, and the near kinsman, and to orphans, and to the needy, and to the neighbor who is of kin, and to the neighbor who is a stranger, and to the companion at your side, and to the traveler, and to [slaves] that your right hands own. Surely God loves not the proud and boastful such as are selfish, and bid other men to be selfish, and themselves conceal the bounty that God has given them.

Islam
Qur'an 4.36-37

Have benevolence towards all living beings, joy at the sight of the virtuous, compassion and sympathy for the afflicted, and tolerance towards the indolent and ill-behaved.

Jainism
Tattvarthasutra 7.11

 Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Judaism
Leviticus 19:18 (partial verse)
King James Version

Do not seek to benefit only yourself, but think of other people also. If you yourself have an abundance, do not say, "The others do not concern me, I need not bother about them!" If you were lucky in hunting, let others share it. Moreover, show them the favorable spots where there are many   sea lions which can be easily slain. Let others have their share occasionally. If you want to amass everything for yourself, other people will stay away from you and no one will want to be with you. If you should one day fall ill, no one will visit you because, for your part, you did not formerly concern yourself about others.

Grant other people something also. The Yamana do not like a person who acts selfishly.

Native American
Yamana Eskimo Initiation

All ye under the heaven! Regard heaven as your father, earth as your mother, and all things as your brothers and sisters.

Shintoism
Oracle of the Kami of Atsuta

Now is the gracious Lord's ordinance promulgated,
No one shall cause another pain or injury;
All mankind shall live in peace together,
Under a shield of administrative benevolence.

Sikhism
Adi Granth, Sri Raga, M.5, p. 74

He who can find no room for others lacks fellow feeling, and to him who lacks fellow feeling, all men are strangers.

Taoism
Chuang Tzu 23

All the people of the whole world are equally brothers and sisters. There is no one who is an utter stranger. There is no one who has known the truth of this origin. It is the very cause of the regret of Tsukihi (God). The souls of all people are equal, whether they live on the high mountains or at the bottoms of the valleys.

Tenrikyo
Ofudesaki XIII.43-45

 

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