Compassion Quotes - Page 34

The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.

Service broadens your vision widens your awareness. Deepens your compassion.

Compassion is no substitute for justice.

The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God's compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.

Everyone alive has suffered. It is the wisdom gained from our wounds and from our own experiences of suffering that makes us able to heal. Becoming expert has turned out to be less important than remembering and trusting the wholeness in myself and everyone else. Expertise cures, but wounded people can best be healed by other wounded people. Only other wounded people can understand what is needed, for the healing of suffering is compassion, not expertise.

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.

But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our way of being and living.

If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in an atmosphere of compassion not punishment, the reduction in drug usage and in the harm done to users could be dramatic.

Compassion gives us a common ground to stand on regardless of your faith background. It gives us a chance to stand shoulder-to-shoulder rather than go fist-to-fist with somebody.

Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share.

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It's the sheer quantity. It's the Niagara of opinion, of information. It's not that I have any kind of compassion fatigue. I just insist on having a life.

The world has lost a visionary leader, a courageous voice for justice, and a clear moral compass. By showing us that the path to freedom and human dignity lies in love, wisdom and compassion for one another, Nelson Mandela stands as an inspiration to us all.

The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassion; if no one else on the farm gave it a thought, he would at least do his best to, even though he suspected that his child's words and child's deeds didn't make much difference. It had stood there before he was born, and would be standing there after he was dead, but perhaps, even so, it was pleased that he stroked its bark every time he passed, and sometimes, when he was sure he wasn't observed, even pressed his cheek against it.

When you feel compassion, you dethrone yourself from the centre of the world.

The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

You can have the 'golden rule' - do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther - where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.

To you who think you are lost or without hope, or who think you have done too much that was too wrong for too long, to every one of you who worry that you are stranded somewhere on the wintry plains of life and have wrecked your handcart in the process, we call out "Jehovah's unrelenting refrain, "My hand is stretched out still" (Isaiah 5:25: 9:17,21). "...His mercy endureth forever, and His hand is stretched out still. His is the pure love of Christ, the charity that never faileth, that compassion which endures even when all other strength disappears".

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

Union and Communion: this is the essence of Christianity.

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.