Top 1200 Human Compassion Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you have some explaining to do. The stark signifier of the human condition is one who spoke up for love and justice and was done to death for his pains. The traumatic truth of human history is a mutilated body.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

Every social trait labelled masculine or feminine is in truth a human trait. It is our human right to develop and contribute our talents whatever our race, sex, religion, ancestry, age. Human rights are indivisible!

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.

One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape, always be sure to put a human figure somewhere in the scene. Why? Because readers are human beings, mostly interested in human beings. People are humanists. Most of them are humanists, that is.

Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

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

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

What if we strove for compassion, for mercy, for forgiveness? And what if we did this for everybody, including people who have harmed others?

Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order.

Compassion and love give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive.

It cannot be emphasized too strongly that Christianity has a vested interest in human misery. Christianity, perhaps more than any religion before or since, capitalized on human suffering; and it was enormously successful in insuring its own existence through the perpetuation of human suffering.

Our collective future depends on opening channels of compassion, acceptance, and understanding of others.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

It's hard to tell what's true compassion, when it's dressed up in hair and nails and fashion.

Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.

Compassion is one of the highest states of consciousness that you can choose to assist you in times of enormous pain.

For many years as a foreign correspondent, I not only worked alongside human rights advocates, but considered myself one of them. To defend the rights of those who have none was the reason I became a journalist in the first place. Now, I see the human rights movement as opposing human rights.

True compassion sees each person as a brother or sister and acts accordingly.

Compassion instills a sense of calm, inner strength, and a deep confidence and satisfaction

Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.

Culture now spreads at central nervous system speed. It’s a shame that compassion doesn’t.

Let go of who you think you should be in order to be who you are. Be imperfect and have compassion for yourself. Connection is the result of authenticity.

Human rights are standards of behavior that are inherent in every human being. They are the core principles underpinning human interaction in society. These include liberty, due process or justice, and freedom of religious beliefs. I find little sympathy with efforts to try to equate Internet access with these higher, fundamental concepts.

Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

What I strive to do through my work, is to teach compassion. You need to have a lot of it, in this day and time, and it's lacking.

The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle built modern civilization, to entertain the endless doubts that hamper every human enterprise, and to conceive the vast menagerie of boogeymen that trouble every human heart.

Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness .

Compassion knows that choosing the higher road in any situation is the most loving option for you.

Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline.

God is the embodiment of compassion. He watches for a grain of goodness or humility so that He can reward it with tons of grace.

I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.

Compassion becomes an automatic reaction when you see all of humanity as one undivided and indivisible family.

Compassion, forgiveness, these are the real, ultimate sources of power for peace and success in life

Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human faculties. Very different is the Christian ideal. Paganism is optimistic with regard to unaided human nature, whereas Christianity is the religion of the broken heart.

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

I think most important, you need to have the compassion and caring for helping to protect vulnerable people.

When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.

All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

Of all the journeys to undertake, the one of self-compassion is one of utmost importance for long-term well-being.

The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will set up success in Christian work as the aim; the aim is to manifest the glory of God in human life, to live the life hid with Christ in God in human conditions. Our human relationships are the actual conditions in which the ideal life of God is to be exhibited.

Even a small act of compassion grants meaning and purpose to our lives.

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.

My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.

Regrettably, the media are seemingly incapable of mentioning the words 'compassion' and 'Trump' in the same sentence.

Hate is the last refuge of the ignorant. Love is the medicine. Compassion is the gift of the awakened ones.

Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain.