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Quotes About Compassion

The prayer for our bread includes the neighbors. It is our Father and our bread.
~ Kenneth E. Bailey
I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
~ Ann Hood
The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.
~ Rick Perry
There is more power in the open hand than in the clenched fist.
~ Herbert Newton Casson
If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.
~ Timothy Keller
The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
~ Immaculee Ilibagiza
Heart power is better than horsepower.
~ Henry John Heinz
We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.
~ William Penn
In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.
~ Rick Warren
To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It's harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.
~ Jeane Kirkpatrick
Lord, as You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.
~ J. D. Greear
Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have the power to rationalize?
~ Mark Twain
To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
~ Tryon Edwards
It is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends.
~ Dalai Lama
What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.
~ Jennifer O'Neill
Power to the peaceful!
~ Michael Franti
Forgive yourself for not being at peace.
~ Eckhart Tolle
You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
~ Amy Tan
We do have the power to save one another...
~ Gloria Estefan
A woman whose heart is not touched by the sickness of sorrow and whose hands do not go out in relief where it is in her power to help, lacks one of the elements which make the glory of womanhood.
~ J.R. Miller
What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world's poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?
~ Anne Lamott