Quotes About Compassion

Chris:I forgive you. Annie: For killing my children and my sweet husband? Chris: For being so wonderful a guy would choose hell over heaven just to be around you.

Jesus quickly decided, as these men all decide, that the power must be used for the benefit of the race.

In late twentieth-century America, this "jurisprudence of lawlessness" is a bit out of (fate. While there is a vigorous victim-rights movement in our nation'' and increasingly strong compassion for the victims of rape,7 the day is long since past when rapists are routinely lynched as in Kernan's time. The killing of the seducer of a virgin is no longer it common occurrence, and unapologetic traducers of women stand in little danger of being shot.

Nothing will change until people with the power really try to imagine the lives of other folks beyond their own direct experience.

religion also teaches kindness, personal responsibility, and the grace not to judge people by the worst moments in their lives.

My pro-life colleagues love them till they're born but don't mind a righteous execution afterward.

he knew that men were too complex to be defined by the worst moment in their lives

You can't supply some other adult with something they don't have. Any more than you can sustain a relationship by offering up your sense of yourself as a kind of bribe. In the end, everyone loses.

the awareness of a community that indifference, as well as injustice, was their enemy.

What she was hearing, Caroline knew, was a lifetime of frustration and moral passion, based on a single, diamond-hard belief: that the death penalty was tainted by human failings too profound to cure, and that imposing it was an act of arrogance which diminished our humanity.

his legacy, if there is one, is that I try to do my best to see people whole, for who they are and what they've been through. especially those who matters to me

This country needs a leader, not a pollster; a healer, not a wheeler-dealer; a conscience-raiser, not a fund-raiser.

I'm fighting now only for individual captive dolphins and dolphins in general but also for people, for the mind and sensibilities of future generations toward the world itself.

I've seen all kinds of things done to dolphins in my travels around the world, but I have never seen anything as horrible as this dolphin drive hunt in Taiji.

By learning to let go and to allow the world and fellow human beings to be who and what they truly are, a disciple frees her or himself to love—to the death.

Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love.

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls' most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

I love when I can reboot people when they are being mean to others...

The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.

Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.