Quotes About Compassion

Because Christians are the most forgiven people in the world, we should be the most forgiving people in the world as well.

As pastor and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote, "Nothing is so cruel as the tenderness that consigns another to his sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe rebuke that calls a brother back from the path of sin."[2] Those

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.

Real love will take you far beyond yourself; and therefore real love will devastate you.

Buddhist discipline is designed to transmute trishna, or egoic narcissism, into Karuna, Divine Narcissism; that is, to transmute self-love, which excludes love of others, into Self-love, which is love of others.

If we have a hair trigger on the exclusion gun, shouldn't it be aimed at those who are using their power to abuse someone who is in a weaker, more vulnerable position?

We are supposed to listen to the voice within us that says, "Gosh, this just doesn't sound loving, even though it sounds correct!" Of course, there's much sorting to be done: what does love really call for in a given situation? Nevertheless, the warning in Scripture is there for a reason.

There remains an experience of incomparable value. We have for once learnt to see the great events of world history from below, from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled—in short, from the perspective of those who suffer.

It's easier to offer easy answers when we are not the people facing the hard questions.

A third way urges disputants to recognize the limits of their personal responsibility for the actions of others and to leave the execution of a judgment to God.

There is something more powerful that the gospel calls us to give each other: not affirmation, not moral approval, but acceptance. Another word for acceptance is embrace. The opposite of exclusion is not mere tolerance but embrace. The "other" is received as one who is beloved.

I love you, but I hate your overeating" doesn't help a marriage. It's not helpful because hatred is a powerful emotion (a posture, really) that is not easy to wield or maintain carefully. Hatred is more a bludgeon than a scalpel. Our ability to distinguish sin from sinner, especially in others, is so limited, so vulnerable to our own unexamined subjectivity.

We have to be thoughtful about the burdens we insist that other people carry, especially when we don't have to carry those same burdens ourselves.

Jesus reveals salvation, as the Marxist critic and occasional atheist Terry Eagleton observes, to be a matter not 'of cult, law and ritual', but of 'feeding the hungry, welcoming the immigrants, visiting the sick, and protecting the poor, orphaned and widowed from the violence of the rich'.

Selma vjerovatno nije u pravu, ali ne osje?a nikakvu simpatiju prema ljudima koji se odri?u svog porijekla. .... Ne daj Bože da ikad prestane da pati zbog te bijede, da ikad zaboravi pogled tih seljanki, pogled pun nade, zatim prebacivanja kad su se vrata ko?ije zatvorila. ...znaju li uopšte da kao svi drugi imaju pravo na život

U ovih 6 mjeseci odkako je u Indiji svaki put kad vidi lj bi?a da služe kao tegle?a gotovo kao sami nosa?i gkao da smatraju da je to posao kao i svaki drugi, a Amir ju je upozorio da bi suvišna obazrivost dovela jedino do toga da ostanu bez hljeba. Napola uvjerena pomirila se sa tim pokušavaju?i osmjesima i nagradama da ublaži svoj osje?aj krivice.

When I'm reborn I'll be born, the next time, so I won't suffer only for myself like this.

No matter what her sins in a former life, may her illness, her pain, be transferred to me.

What is needed is not sight, but insight—I need to look at your visual "impairment" and infer that my own impairment might be the same or worse.

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

Ask any decent person what he thinks matters most in human conduct: five to one his answer will be "kindness."

You have to have a spirit of LOVE---Even for your enemies.

How does God look on us? He looks on us as though we had never done anything wrong.