They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for men.
Bernard MalamudTag: men history god mankind pity
Is it a small thing to quench the flames of hell with the holy tears of pity -- to unbind the martyr from the stake -- break all the chains -- put out the fires of civil war -- stay the sword of the fanatic, and tear the bloody hands of the Church from the white throat of Science?
Is it a small thing to make men truly free -- to destroy the dogmas of ignorance, prejudice and power -- the poisoned fables of superstition, and drive from the beautiful face of the earth the fiend of fear?
Tag: kindness liberty compassion morality freedom goodness pity
Walk with me for a while, my friend—you in my shoes, I in yours—and then let us talk.
Richelle E. GoodrichTag: compassion empathy sympathy understanding-others pity richelle richelle-goodrich
I had great pity on Ansje, because she always acted very happy, but I believed that it was really a front. I could see through it. Inside she was crying because she was really very sad. You pity people like that -- the ones who try to lie to themselves -- because they suffer so much and don't face reality.
Diet EmanTag: reality suffering pity false-belief lying-to-ourselves
The greatest miracle was that in the end I could actually feel pity for those men because they were so deluded: they thought they had power and really they had nothing. I will never forget it. And from that moment on I've never really hated anymore. It all turned around when I sat there thinking what poor empty souls they were.
Diet EmanTag: peace hate nazis pity poor-people empty-soul
Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act.
Pramoedya Ananta ToerTag: pity
There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as quickly as possible of the painful emotion aroused by the sight of another's unhappiness, that pity which is not compassion, but only an instinctive desire to fortify one's own soul agains the sufferings of another; and the other, the only one at counts, the unsentimental but creative kind, which knows what it is about and is determined to hold out, in patience and forbearance, to the very limit of its strength and even beyond.
Stefan ZweigTag: pity compassionityaf
Suppose it should turn out that no such person as Christ ever lived. What harm would that do justice or mercy? Wouldn't the tear of pity be as pure as now, and wouldn't justice, holding aloft her scales, from which she blows even the dust of prejudice, be as noble, as admirable as now? Is it not better to love justice and mercy than to love a name, and when you put a name above justice, above mercy, are you sure that you are benefiting your fellowmen?
Robert G. IngersollTag: harm morality justice mercy pity
After everything, you still want to believe that love prevails, that in the end there will be justice. That is an illusion, and I pity you.
Jessica FortunatoTag: love justice illusion fool pity sacrifices villain the-sin-collector
All my life I'd been a believing Christian. ... But that instant in the ER--the instant Annette [his wife] died--I seemed to feel my religious faith die, too.
As I thought more about it in the bleak days and weeks that followed, I decided the Bible had gotten it exactly backward. Maybe God hadn't created us in His image; maybe we'd created god in our image.
Tag: sadness death atheism sorrow atheist grief transformation pity realization
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