Quotes About Compassion

We bask in God's grace but throw the law at others. We're

let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

You are most loving, patient, kind, and gracious when you are aware that there is no truth that you could give to another that you don't desperately need yourself.

Jack asked himself: Would he have wanted to live out his life as a placid, contented, lobotomized Ferdinand the Bull? No. Then, what right did he have to inflict such a fate on anybody?

I don't have any ill will toward anybody, except for maybe the people...yeah, the people.

Everybody, ultimately, is trying to reach a harmony with the other part of the life force. And in trying to figure out what life is all about, we ultimately come down to expressions of compassion and love, helping the rest of the life force, caring about others without any conditions or expectations, without expecting to get anything in return. This is expressed in every religion, by every prophet." - George Lucas

My goal in life is to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am.

Thomas Merton once said that some of the most violent people he met were social activists, in what they did to themselves.

to be loyal to Christ, one must be vulnerable to others.

when, in our contemporary idiom, "talking" about compassion becomes more important than "walking" in compassion – then words show their ever-lurking danger.

By love alone is hatred dispelled." Jesus would add: a love that must be ready to die rather than hate. Out of such love, and out of such death that this love can require, will hatred be dispelled. Hearts will be changed. And so will our world.

Actions and words that flow from anger are generally going to be violent, physically, verbally, psychologically. Their purpose will be to hurt. For this reason, Buddhists hold that if you're trying to combine compassion with anger, you're kidding yourself. Anger opens the door to violence. And once you're violent, you've cut off your interconnectedness and profoundly jeopardized your ability to love.

Only with the peace that comes with such mindfulness will we be able to respond in a way that brings forth peace for the event or person or feeling we are dealing with.

When our opposition to those we have judged to be the oppressors is so animated by wisdom and compassion, our opposition to what they are doing will always contain an option for their wellbeing. So a preferential option for the poor is also always part of an option for the oppressors. We are also seeking to promote the wellbeing of the oppressors, their happiness, their peace.

I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.

So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it. So we fight the long defeat.

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

the basis of our preferential option for the poor to say: I accompany them not because they are all good, or because I am all good, but because God is good.

Managing inequality almost never includes higher standards of care for those whose agency has been constrained, whether by poverty or by prison bars.

Statistics or graphs,'" are not optimal to understand the 'experience of suffering.'" (qtd in Sutton 11)

At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.