Quotes About Compassion

For all the differences that divide us from humanity across the sea or down the centuries, it is through suffering that we maintain a common bond.

Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Right intention says essentially: treat yourself and others with kindness and compassion while living in alignment with your deepest values.

Embracing small personal changes can be the first step toward creating greater change in the world, and humanity at large.

You must nourish the body with healthy food, the heart with joy, compassion and love, the mind with knowledge and the spirit with equanimity and self-awareness. . . . If you fill yourself with other kinds of satisfaction, food will no longer be a problem.

When did we stop being people, being human?

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

Don't hate me for wanting to change the way things are. I believe in you, Callum. You can change the world, I know you can. But not like this, I'm not trying to be magnanimous or patronizing. I genuinely want to help but...

You see, I'll never get out of hell if there's not even you left to pray for me

a good heart never had luck

We weep for the blood of a bird, but not for the blood of a fish. Blessed are those who have voice.

We weep for a bird's cry, but not for a fish's blood. Blessed are those with a voice.

Attitudes toward other creatures is conditioned by one's level of security within the universe.

We all make mistakes in our youth of which we are ashamed. The difference is that the rest of us can forgive the child we were and believe in the honour of the adult we have become. - Gwyddhien

We all make mistakes in our youth of which we are ashamed. The difference is that the rest of us can forgive the ignorance of the child we were and believe in the honour of the adult we have become.

No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.

Wie überwinden wir das Böse? Indem wir es vergeben ohne Ende. Wie geschieht das? Indem wir den Feind sehen als den, der er in Wahrheit ist, als den, für den Christus starb, den Christus liebt.

Weil Jesus Christus die menschgewordene Liebe Gottes zu den Menschen ist, darum ist er nicht der Verkünder abstrakter ethischer Ideologien, sondern der konkrete Vollstrecker der Liebe Gottes.

Unrecht leiden schadet keinem Christen. Aber Unrecht tun schadet.

Wenn Gott die Welt, die ganze abgefallene Kreatur geliebt hat, dann hat er uns keinen Vorzug vor anderen gegeben. Er hat meinen schlimmsten Feind nicht weniger geliebt als mich.