Master Cheng Yen's aphorisms are not fundamentally different from the instruction of other Buddhist masters like Hsing Yun or Sheng Yen. The admonitions and words of wisdom in Cheng Yen's recorded teachings are all meant to bring out people's basic goodness and appeal to conscience. And there are many similarities with Christianity and traditional Confucian ethics.
靜思語或許在本質上和星雲、聖嚴等當代佛學宗師的開示並沒有什麼不同，甚至，語錄中記載的佳句警言基本上都是啟發人的善性良知，和西方基督教、中國人普知的倫理思想，也處處相通。