"Confining a de-beaked hen in a battery cage is more than a moral
crime; it is a living sign of our failure to recognize the blessing of
God in creation." -- Rev. Dr. Andrew Linzey

"To shut your mind, heart and imagination from the sufferings of
others is to begin slowly, but inexorably, to die. Those Christians
who close their minds and hearts to the cause of animal welfare, and
the evils it seeks to combat, are ignoring the Fundamental spiritual
teachings of Christ himself." -- John Baker, Bishop of Salisbury

"Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no
gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any
possible use." -- John Ruskin

"And if thy heart be straight with God, then every creature shall be
to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine, for there is no
creature so little or so vile, but that sheweth and representeth the
goodness of God." -- Thomas à Kempis

"Every creature is a word of God." -- Meister Eckhart

"God brings millions of flowers to bloom without force." -- Wayne Dyer

"God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and
invented cages." -- Jacques Deval

"I tremble for my species when I reflect that God is just." -- Thomas
Jefferson

"If I'm lucky enough to get to heaven I might find that God is a
beaver or a burro. What a sad world it would be if only the two-legged
were here." -- Cleveland Amory

"It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of
God, the compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary
compassion toward our fellow creatures." -- Mahatma Gandhi

"It is strange to hear people talk of Humanitarianism, who are members
of societies for the prevention of cruelty to children and animals,
and who claim to be God-loving men and women, but who, nevertheless,
encourage by their patronage the killing of animals merely to gratify
the cravings of appetite." -- Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish

"Kindness to all God's creatures is an absolute rock-bottom necessity
if peace and righteousness are to prevail." -- Sir Wilfred Grenfell

"Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy
untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harass them, don't deprive
them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not
pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and
you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it,
and leave the traces of your foulness after you -- alas, it is true of
almost every one of us!" -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Not to hurt our humble brethren (the animals) is our first duty to
them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission--to be
of service to them whenever they require it... If you have men who
will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and
pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."
-- St. Francis of Assisi

"Some say vegetarianism is an alternative diet, but it is the original
diet, the plan designed by God." -- James Marcus

"The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and
beneficence of God, manifested in the creation, toward all His
creatures." -- Thomas Paine

"We are all God's creatures -- that we pray to God for mercy and
justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are
slaughtered on our account is not consistent." -- Isaac Bashevis
Singer


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