Quotes About Compassion

Third, Akiva adds a different perspective. The real problem, he suggests, is that no one understands the best way to rebuke another person. If the person doing the rebuking understood how to rebuke, rebuke would be more easily accepted by the other.

I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.

I've spent the last thirty years of my life telling the parents of gay and lesbian kids that as Christians, the only thing any of us can do is to accept and love our kids unconditionally, just as they are. I am certainly not about to do anything else when it comes to our own son.

Nobody becomes or remains good in isolation. We have to help one another grow.

Simply stated, even when we know better, most of us feel deeply hurt and offended when we realize the person we are talking to genuinely believes we are doomed to hell. In a real sense, to write someone off that way is the ultimate act of disrespect, effectively negating every good thing they have ever said or done unless they change their mind and agree with us.

Oreo hug, where two people hug a person in between them.

Sometimes you hurt people for no reason. Just because you can.

And now to my socialist friends who are here present: I have said that Jesus wanted what you want, that he wanted to help those who are least, that he wanted to establish the kingdom of God upon this earth, that he wanted to abolish self-seeking property, that he wanted to make persons into comrades. Your concerns are in line with the concerns of Jesus. Real socialism is real Christianity in our time.

God is the one who always remembers those whom history has forgotten.

yo he oído decir a muchos seglares españoles de muchos años acá e muchas veces, no pudiendo negar la bondad que en ellos veen: "cierto, estas gentes eran las más bienaventuradas del mundo, si solamente conoscieran a Dios".

Y porque toda la gente que huir podía se encerraba en los montes y subía a las sierras huyendo de hombres tan inhumanos, tan sin piedad y tan feroces bestias, extirpadores y capitales enemigos del linaje humano, ense

Upon the roadway of my life, A guide-board I will leave of love, So those who follow in my steps May guided be to hills above.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.

Do not weep. Do not wax indignant. Understand.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...

I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions, but to understand them.

Those who are governed by reason desire nothing for themselves which they do not desire for the rest of humankind.

For though men be ignorant, yet they are men

I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.

Nu râde, nu jeli, nu urî, ci în?elege!

that he that is strong hates no man, is angry with no man, envies no man, is indignant with no man, despises no man, and least of all things is proud.