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Quotes About Compassion

Suggesting I hate people with religion because I hate religion is like suggesting I hate people with cancer because I hate cancer.
~ Ricky Gervais
Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
~ Thomas Paine
Of one thing we can be certain: every person we see - no matter the race, religion, political beliefs, body type, or appearance - is family.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
~ Albert Einstein
Humiliating people in the name of religion is the practice of someone deprived of the first fruit of religion, # humility .
~ Nouman Ali Khan
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.
~ Dorothy Day
"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
~ George Eliot
Kindness is a universal language regardless of age, nationality or religion.
~ Alex Ferguson
Religion and love don't have a price, don't have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate.
~ Riccardo Tisci
For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.
~ Ramsey Clark
In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . . .
~ William J. Clinton
For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.
~ Abdul Kalam
Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.
~ David Nicholls
True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.
~ Erwin McManus
If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness.
~ Roland Merullo
The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.
~ Abraham Isaac Kook
I believe that whether a person follows any religion or not is unimportant, he or she must have a good heart, a warm heart.
~ Dalai Lama
We have to find the back door to peoples' hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.
~ Ravi Zacharias
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.
~ Bertrand Russell
Sin is not just breaking God's laws; it is breaking His heart.
~ Adrian Rogers