Compassion Quotes - Page 26

• When we look at the world through the eyes of the Master, the world will look so much more beautiful - not a nasty place, but a place filled with love, joy, compassion and all virtues

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Beautiful, Eye, Joy

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• I testify that when the Lord closes one important door in your life, He shows His continuing love and compassion by opening many other compensating doors through your exercise of faith. He will place in your path packets of spiritual sunlight to brighten your way....They point the way to greater happiness, more understanding, and strengthen your determination to accept and be obedient to His will.

  Richard G. Scott

  Spiritual, Determination, Exercise

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• May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Asking, May

  "Jack Kornfield on Gratitude and Mindfulness". greatergood.berkeley.edu. May 19, 2014.

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• As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Bows, Imagine

  Twitter post from Mar 20, 2015

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• The god of compassion is NOT the god of justice.

  Dennis Prager

  Justice

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• On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Philosophical, Healing

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• Nine Years Under is a sparkling debut--- brimming with love and bursting with life. Booker's Baltimore is equal parts The Wire and The Cosby show. She doesn't shrink from the realities of life in an inner city funeral home, but she is also a loving witness, documenting the big hearted community that takes care of its own. Told with compassion, wit, and good old fashioned story telling, Sheri Booker gives us unforgettable characters who will make you laugh right up until they break your heart.

  Tayari Jones

  Character, Home, Heart

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• We do not increase compassion by expanding it to cover anything. Instead, we kill a good word by making it mean too much, and nothing.

  Marvin Olasky

  Mean, Too Much, Expanding

  Marvin Olasky (1994). “The Tragedy of American Compassion”, p.232, Regnery Publishing

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• Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.

  Aberjhani

  Empathy, Humanity, Steps

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• Without doubt machines will be able to determine the means and avenues to goals, but men will continue to set the goals themselves. For what machine can ever apply the considerations of compassion and justice which, as man's enlightenment spreads ... will enter ever more into the decisions that affect his future ... in the universe?

  Lewis Strauss

  Business, Mean, Men

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• History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.

  Kedar Joshi

  Humility, Giving, Tragedy

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• Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Love, Loyalty, Grateful

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• He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and nobility that decorate this world.

  Kedar Joshi

  Heart, Eye, Men

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• The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Love, Men, Deeds

  Alfred Armand Montapert (1982). “Inspiration & motivation”, Prentice Hall Direct

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

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Reflection, Knives, Detached

  "Brown v. United States, 256 U.S. 335, 343". Judicial opinion, May 16, 1921.

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• The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our intellect truly praying to Him, He enters it and puts to flight the whole array of thoughts and ideas circling within it, and He arouses it to a longing for spiritual prayer.

  Evagrius Ponticus

  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

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• Jesus conveyed the impression of complete love, compassion, kindness, and infinite patience.

  Mary C. Neal

  Christian, Jesus, Kindness

  Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.216, WaterBrook

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• Therefore, we know about God that He loves and shows pity on His creatures, and also that He is the source of wisdom and knows how to govern everything concerning us. Nothing is impossible for Him, but everything is subject to His will. We must also realize that everything He does is for our benefit and we must accept it with thankfulness...as from a benefactor and a good lord even if is troublesome. For everything is done with right judgment, and God, Who is merciful, does not overlook even the smallest sadness that we suffer.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Sadness, Words Of Wisdom, Suffering

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• When someone is full of Love and Compassion, he cannot draw a line between two countries, two faiths or two religions.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Love, Country, Two

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “May Your Hearts Blossom: Chicago Speech”, p.36, M A Center

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• Without compassion, true gratitude is an impossibility. If we are to feel gratitude towards another for their deeds, then we must have compassion for the suffering and self-sacrifice which they endured in carrying out those deeds. If their actions were free of suffering or sacrifice, then are they truly deserving of gratitude?

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Gratitude, Sacrifice

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• Gratitude free of compassion is selfishness. It is nothing more than being happy for what has been done to benefit you.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Gratitude, Selfishness

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• It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around. Wendell Berry, "The Pleasures of Eating," What Are People For?, 1989 Jesus pioneered a relationship ethic based on compassion. Being a disciple means building relationships - with the Creator and with all creation and creatures.

  Leonard Sweet

  Jesus, Mean, Animal

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• Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask moral questions. For example, just because we have the economic muscle to buy up vast amounts of the world's oil, does that give us the right to do so? When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, Running, Distance

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• Training in compassion is a mental activity. but our mind should also be brought to the level where every action we take is influenced by compassion. That means engaging ourselves in compassion in action.

  Gelek Rimpoche

  Mean, Training, Mind

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• One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help people. It's a fundamental clash between two people who happen to love each other, which complicates everything.

  Bill Nighy

  Two, People, Trying

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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