Quotes About Compassion

I'm for anything that teaches consideration and kindness. If one can teach one's son to dance with the ugliest little girl in the room, that's the best lesson they can ever learn.

I believe if religion brings you to a sense of peace, that's beautiful. But I also believe if religion's not your thing, that's fine, too, just so long as you're a good person and you find that one thing that leads you to peace and teaches you to have harmony with yourself and other people around you.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

I cannot hate, because my Bible teaches me not to hate.

I think it teaches you humility and love being a parent.

I loved being poor, because it teaches you humility.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.

When someone is in crisis, don't start by teaching, leveraging, or explaining. Just be with.

I think corporal punishment is the shortest, most impatient, flawed way of teaching or making a child understand something.

I love dogs. I absolutely adore them. When I'm teaching in Mexico, I rescue dogs from the streets and make my students adopt them.

There was a mental institution near my house, and I would donate time teaching mentally ill patients how to do ceramics. I photographed them as well. So those were my first pictures.

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

Then, there was Cary Grant. He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to eat jello.

I don't ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder.

I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.

In the pulpit, we're supposed to present the teaching with all of its unvarnished clarity, but when you step out of the pulpit, you have to meet people where they are and try to walk with them.

I do good in the world - at least I try to. I speak on behalf of women, and I know I have made the lives of women happier as a result of teaching them what I have learned relative to true health rather than disease care.

Berta Caceres, a Lenca woman, grew up during the violence that swept through Central America in the 1980s. Her mother, a midwife and social activist, took in and cared for refugees from El Salvador, teaching her young children the value of standing up for disenfranchised people.

If we all lived according to the teachings of Jesus Christ, life would be much simpler.

I cannot speak for Jesus, but I can quote his teachings, and he said, 'Love your neighbor as yourself'... How would he react to me playing Jesus? He wouldn't judge it. He wouldn't judge his own enemy... Playing this part highlights his teaching in a very nice way.

If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.

I believe in the teachings of Christ. I think that's a good way to set your moral compass.