Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max Lucado

The ultimate solution to POVERTY is found in the COMPASSION of God's people.

Max Lucado

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.

May Sarton

The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.

Neal Shusterman

What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows—she sees—how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.

Neale Donald Walsch

We cannot have peace on Earth until we learn to speak with one voice. That voice must be the voice of reason, the voice of compassion, the voice of love. It is the voice of divinity within us.

Madeleine L'Engle

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.

Peter McWilliams

If we want the freedom to take part in our bit of differentness, then we must allow others their rights to take part in theirs, as long as they do not harm the person or property of a non-consenting other, of course. IT'S JUST common sense. It's also constitutional and it forms the cornerstone of the American ideal: free individual expression, tolerance and compassion.

Paulo Coelho

Tolerance and compassion are qualities of fearless people.

Prince

Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.

Philip Yancey

I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.

Mike Pence

The sanctity proceeds out of the belief... that ancient principle where God says "before you were formed in the womb I knew you," and so for the first time in my public life I sought to stand with great compassion for the sanctity of life.

Paul Theroux

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

Pankaj Mishra

We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world.

P. C. Cast

True love wasn't found in good hair or the right clothes, make-up or shoes. True love was found in the soul - as was wisdom and compassion

Percy Bysshe Shelley

For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.

No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion

Joan Halifax

Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.

Joan Halifax

We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

Joan Halifax

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

Joan Halifax

Don't ever think compassion is weak. Compassion is about strength.

Joan Halifax

May I see my own limits with compassion, just as I view the limits of others.

Jim McDermott

There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.

Jim Kolbe

Tim Bee has demonstrated his toughness and his compassion, his ability to lead while at the same time listening to others. These are skills few people in public life have. We need Tim Bee working for us in Congress.

Leo Tolstoy

'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.

Leonard Bernstein

Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's - the spirit of compassion, of universal love, even of suffering - a spirit that knows no age, that belongs to all ages.

Joseph Campbell

The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has something to give to - as well as to demand of - the world.

Joseph Campbell

The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another's sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of compassion is the one who's found the Grail.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

Joy Bryant

Acknowledgement: Understanding and compassion for others and their suffering is the next step. Put yourself in the shoes of people who don't have the luxury of being wasteful.

Joseph Cook

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Joseph Butler

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food

Leonard Cohen

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.