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Quotes About Compassion

You don't need religion to have morals. If you can't decide right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.
~ Kane
Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent.
~ Malcolm X
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
~ Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
~ Robert F. Kennedy
If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.
~ Max von Sydow
True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.
~ Desmond Tutu
Divided as we may be by religion, we are united by charity.
~ Rashi
If you want to know the religion of a man, do not look at how much he prays and fasts, rather, look at how he treats people.
~ Ja'far al-Sadiq
Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.
~ Nikolai Berdyaev
You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.
~ John C. Maxwell
Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility.
~ S. Parkes Cadman
"Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their crimes!
~ John William Fletcher
We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others
~ Harry Truman
If we meet somebody who has never made a mistake, lets help them start a religion. Until then, were just going to meet other humans and help to make each other better.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
~ Linus Pauling
There is no higher religion than human service.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives.
~ Gautama Buddha
A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.
~ Ricky Gervais
Love is the common denominator that unites all people whatever religion they are.
~ Rumi
Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.
~ Dorothee Solle
With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.
~ Charles Grodin