What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God's compassion for someone?
J.D. GreearTags: compassion christianity prayer cross
But those who are incapable of
pitying animals are, as a matter of fact, incapable of pitying men.
A physician who would cut a living rabbit in pieces -- laying bare
the nerves, denuding them with knives, pulling them out with
forceps -- would not hesitate to try experiments with men and women
for the gratification of his curiosity.
Tags: compassion animal-rights vivisection
Brain without heart is far more dangerous than heart without
brain.
Tags: compassion
Sweet Evelyn, I think, I should have loved you better.
Possessing perfect knowledge I hover above him as he hacks me to bits. I see his rough childhood. I see his mother doing something horrid to him with a broomstick. I see the hate in his heart and the people he had yet to kill before pneumonia gets him at eighty-three. I see the dead kid's mom unable to sleep, pounding her fists against her face in grief at the moment I was burying her son's hand. I see the pain I've caused. I see the man I could have been, and the man I was, and then everything is bright and new and keen with love and I sweep through Sam's body, trying to change him, trying so hard, and feeling only hate and hate, solid as stone.
Tags: compassion empathy afterlife hatred forgiveness
Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, "Let there be no compulsion in religion" (2:256) - is arguably the first mandate for religious tolerance in human history.
Huston SmithTags: science life inspirational politics kindness love passion compassion history society people peace silence death religion faith human fact atheist law christian earth unity muslim jewish discipline hindu structure tender mandate
Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.
Bryant McGillTags: compassion humanity joy aspiration purpose-of-life
We can see Spirit made visible when people are kind to one another, especially when it's a really busy person, like you, taking care of a needy, annoying, neurotic person, like you.
Anne LamottTags: compassion self spirit needs
Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: intelligence kindness compassion wealth law force diplomacy richelle solving-problems dominion richelle-goodrich clout
Thinking we are only supposed to have loving
Sharon SalzbergTags: buddhism compassion inspiration
Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
Sharon SalzbergTags: love buddhism compassion inspiration
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