Quotes About Compassion

Vengeance will never take away sorrow. It

Failure to see the other stopped the mind from expanding. It started contracting, crumpling and getting knotted. It became all about me and mine, not you and yours. Limitless Brahmana thus became the limited Brahma.

To empathize is dharma. Failure to empathize is adharma.

The thought manifests the word; The word manifests the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let them spring forth from love Born out of compassion for all beings. As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become.

The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow

I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts… someone's got to go out there and love people and show it.

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

Awe is the gateway to compassion. It is a deep awareness that we are creators, creators who work with the Creator, in an ongoing project of crafting a world. If we do not like the world or are afraid of it, we have had a hand in that. And if we made a mess, we can clean it up and do better. We are what we make.

That it is precisely when we recognize our common humanity—when we recognize our own humanity in the face of the other—it is then that we also recognize the face of God.

Enacting love was a critical aspect of experiencing love. Devotion and ethics intertwined.

While contemporary Christians tend to equate morality with sexual ethics, our ancestors defined morality as welcoming the stranger.

The deepest and most important spiritual lessons I ever learned came from a circle of drunks, fighting desperately not to drink today, whom I initially viewed as low-life losers, and who ultimately came to be for me the oracles of God. The Twelve Steps in no way diminished my appreciation for the gospel of Jesus Christ—quite the contrary—I am more convinced than ever of the reality of the gospel story.

Spirituality is not just about sitting in a room encountering a mystical god in meditation or about seeing God in a sunset. Awe is the gateway to compassion. It is a deep awareness that we are creators, creators who work with the Creator, in an ongoing project of crafting a world. If we do not like the world or are afraid of it, we have had a hand in that. And if we made a mess, we can clean it up and do better. We are what we make.

Grace—gifts given without being earned and with no expectation of return—

St. Teresa of Ávila once said, "God has no hands but yours. . . . Yours are the hands with which he blesses all the world.

There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.

If you dig a grave for your neighbour, first measure it for yourself.

difficulties in interpersonal functioning, particularly with intimacy and empathy.

You are my courage, as I am your conscience," he whispered. "You are my heart---and I your compassion. We are neither of us whole, alone. Do ye not know that, Sassenach?

Sometimes bad things happen when you try to do something good.

When we have the ability to save someone's life, and we decide they aren't worthy of being saved—isn't that playing God as well?

The true function of sex is to bring more love into the world.

I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!