Quotes About Compassion

To be a Christian does not mean to be religious in a particular way, to cultivate some particular form of asceticism ... but to be a man." —LETTERS AND PAPERS FROM PRISON

The ministry of the church is a genuine concern for others. We need to stop talking about it and start doing it. Rise. Rise and shine, friend. Everyone you meet today is on heaven's Most Wanted list.

El amor que asciende es adoración; el amor que sale es afecto; pero el amor que se inclina es gracia».3

Unfair suffering is never funny.

Grace releases people not only from sin but from shame.

En lugar de enfocarse en las obras de la carne, Jesús habló acerca del corazón. En lugar de exigir que el pecador cumpliera una larga lista de requisitos, hizo énfasis en la fe, aunque esta fuera tan pequeña como un grano de mostaza.

As we shall see, the best leaders are actually servants. Unselfishly

There will be plenty of backup and support, but she's still going to have to do heartbreaking things to people who probably don't understand why the pale woman with the bone-white violin and blood dripping from her fingertips is coming for them.

Hate the sin, love the sinner: it's hard to stay pissed off at someone for doing something wrong if you know you'd have done exactly the same thing if you'd been standing in their shoes.)

Everything that happens to me is designed to better prepare me for serving others, everything!

I hadn't realized that a break in a bone could be so exquisitely painful. I'd feel a greater tolerance for the the wounded after this.

Justice, he thought, has many faces, but they don't always include mercy.

Nursing Service.

the word shari'ah literally means 'a path that leads to water.' Even the dire warnings that appear in the Qur'an are essentially nothing but the protective words of a Friend who doesn't want to see us lose our way and come to grief.

I know that as a very young child, I was afraid of death. Many children become aware of the notion of death early and it can be a very troubling thing. We're all in this continuum: I'm this age now, and if I live long enough I'll be that age. I was 20 once, I was 10, I was 4. People who are 20 now will be 50 one day. They don't know that! They know it in the abstract, but they don't know it. I'd like them to know it, because I think it gives you compassion.

resentful. It does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the

But if other people are irritable, we may divorce their behavior from their experiencing. We can't feel their experience; and so we judge their behavior. If we think, "She shouldn't be so arrogant," we only see her behavior and judge it, because we have no awareness of what is true for her

The minute we have even a passing thought of judging another person, the red light of practice should go on.

When we're engaged in pure activity, we're a presence, an awareness. But that's all we are. And that doesn't feel like anything. People feel that the so-called enlightened state is flooded with emotional and loving feelings. But true love or compassion is simply to be nonseparate from the object. Essentially, it's a flow of activity in which we do not exist as a being separate from our activity.

I would apologize to the devil if you treated him as you treat Nicola.

It was a truism that people always hated those they had wronged, even if they were prepared to forgive anyone who wronged them.

No human being has the right to put his own desires in front of the happiness of anyone else.

he'd tried to teach her to be as thoughtful of his employees as she was of him and of her friends;

Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?