Quotes About Compassion

This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.

The question of bread for myself is a material question; but the question of bread for my neighbour, for everybody, is a spiritual and a religious question.

There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.

Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual knowledge in the soul.

Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends.

For me, spiritual means love in action. So if you are working for love, then you are a spiritual person.

Give up being right. Instead radiate peace, harmony, love, and laughter from your heart.

The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.

The more difficult it is to forgive someone the greater the opportunity for spiritual growth.

It's not just philosophy, not just words; it's knowing how the mind functions; only then can you develop loving-kindness; only then can you become a spiritual person.

Loving people is the highest level of spiritual warfare that we could ever do

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

Forgiveness is the Most Powerful thing you can Do for Yourself on the Spiritual Path.

It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.

Being Kind Not in some great deed of heroism; not in some great speech or act that may be pointed to with pride-but rather in the little kindnesses from day to day.

By seeing the beauty in every face we lift others into their wisest self and increase the chances of hearing a synchronistic message.

No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.

What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.

We are not cistern made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

If you strive to make yourself in such a way that nobody can help loving you, life will blossom, everything will yield.

One's spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one's fellow beings.

When one begins to really feel into the spiritual dimension of their beings, they bump into love. They bump into compassion. They bump into beauty.

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.