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Quotes About Compassion

Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.
~ Mother Teresa
Servants must be big people. Big enough to go on, remembering the right and forgetting the wrong.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.
~ Cyril Connolly
I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.
~ Stephen King, Joyland
One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down.
~ Marvin J. Ashton
In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.
~ Geoffrey Wood
The essence of any religion is good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion.
~ Dalai Lama
A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There are some great values in Christianity, but I think the values are located more deeply in our humanity than they are in our religion. There are certainly some survival values.
~ John Shelby Spong
Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever
~ Dalai Lama
I want to be the president for all Americans, regardless of your political beliefs, where you come from, what you look like, your religion.
~ Hillary Clinton
The essence of all religions is love, compassion, and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. The clear proof of a person's love of God is if that person genuinely shows love to fellow human beings.
~ Dalai Lama
Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You may be frustrated with religion, but don't take that out on God.
~ Bruce Feiler
You cannot separate charity and religion.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone's door.
~ Swami Vivekananda
It's not that I'm anti-religion. I'm anti any religion that doesn't practice the core, which is love.
~ Chuck Panozzo
Even without a religion, we can become a good human being.
~ Dalai Lama
My religion is kindness. A good mind, a good heart, warm feelings these are the most important things.
~ Dalai Lama
As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering.
~ Dalai Lama
Wondering if God loves us when we're cheating? Oh, but why he lets us feel things, if it's wrong.
~ Dolly Parton
People - whatever their race, religion, sexual preference - deserve to be treated as human beings.
~ Demi Moore
Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Show true religion, cause words don't relieve
~ Francis Chan