Compassion Quotes - Page 90

The Lord will give you, if you ask, the feelings of the compassion He feels for those in need.

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.

In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion.

The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the world the lowly, the oppressed, and the forgotten.

When you are blessing the sick, you beg of the Almighty, but actually you are not begging for anything, because from inside your being, energy is pouring into the other person. It is from a state of compassion, of compassionate meditation, that the healing activity of God, within the being, flows.

Love is being understanding and compassionate.

In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.

Every truth ever discovered -- each new light that will ever burn bright -- already exists in our consciousness. All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice -- the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows -- awaits us within ourselves. Hidden in this truth is our great promise, both as individuals and as a race of beings.

Certainly I am sometimes afraid, but my hope is greater than my fear, and the biggest enemy we all face is ignorance which breeds hatred, whether it be in America, or Afghanistan, or anywhere. We owe it to our children that we may give them all a legacy of peace, but it will take courage and compassion.

Tim Curley and Gary Schultz operate at the highest levels of honesty, integrity and compassion.

We need more spontaneous compassion and charity.

What interests me is love, sex, death, cruelty, compassion and the desire for meaning in an apparently godless universe. In other words the human condition.

It is the strength of the mother that is going to change the way the world is. It's the compassion, the love, the very open spirited mother and woman that will move us forward in this new century. It's no doubt.

If everyone sincerely practices the path of compassion and wisdom, all their problems will be solved. I guarantee this.

...the Blessed will see their friends and relations among the damned as often as they like but without the least of compassion.

The old question still remains: Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?

We should fund the armies of compassion, we should not discriminate against faith-based programs.

We waited for Congress to act. They couldn't act on the issue. So I just went ahead and signed an executive order which will unleash - [applause] - which says the federal agencies will not discriminate against faith-based programs. They ought to welcome the armies of compassion as opposed to turning them away.

I think that fiction has a part to play in urging us, as a species, toward compassion.

Compassion doesn't have to be weak or enabling; it can also be quite bold.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

I expect to see, on television, the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan decrying to the whole world that my client should be in jail for rendering kindness and compassion, primarily because the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan is a religious nut.