Take then this Book, look into it, and show me when Jesus was not forgiving. Read this diving tragedy and tell me… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
When you label so much of what happens to you as 'bad,' it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
“I’d been so used to the court system and thinking of myself as a criminal. I’d been so used to pleading in… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“The point is not rigid legalism. The point is the spirit of the communication—understandable only because Moses was intimate with God (forty… — Dick Brogden Copy Share Image
“To use our individual good or bad luck as a litmus test to determine whether or not God exists constructs an illogical… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Most of all, though, Daniel liked Max’s compassion for those around him. Yeah, he said it was fueled by guilt, but everyone’s… — Amy Spector Copy Share Image
“Dr. Kristin Neff is a researcher and professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She runs the Self-Compassion Research Lab, where… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I seem indeed to hear that voice, from Him Who gathers together those who are broken, and welcomes the oppressed: I have… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
“I intend to extract a kiss from those bee-stung lips of yours for every minute of that time—when the time is right.… — Zara Cox Copy Share Image
We must respect each other's right to choose a collective destiny, and the opportunity to develop the legal and political rights for… — Jackie Huggins Copy Share Image
I'm still a researcher. The best way to explain it is that I trusted myself deeply as a professional, but I did… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
To live without love, compassion, or any other spiritual value creates a state of such severe imbalance that every cell yearns to… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“It can be seen not just as part of the human condition, but central to what it is to be human. We… — Tom Inglis Copy Share Image
“Leniency and mercy. Men set free despite crimes, because they were good fathers, or well liked in the community, or in the… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Mercy is an entirely different way of reacting to offenses, to things we think are wrong. Think about this: mercy is not… — David A. Powlison Copy Share Image
Never be petty. Do not feed resentments against anyone. I prefer good-hearted sinners to so called good people who are intolerant and… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
In a mad race to nowhere,how many of us stop and look around ? And even the one who do,how many do… — Sd Copy Share Image
Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I think we too are the people who, on the one hand, want to listen to Jesus, but on the other hand,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“The rest of us, not chosen for enlightenment, left on the outside of Earth, at the mercy of a Gravity we have… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“expiation: A sacrifice that wipes away sin. • The expression is used multiple times in the Greek OT for the mercy seat,… — Scott Hahn Copy Share Image
Things would hurt me in a big way because I didn't seem to have a very thick layer of skin, but this… — Missy Higgins Copy Share Image
“Dear sisters, many of you are endlessly compassionate and patient with the weaknesses of others. Please remember also to be compassionate and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“The moral conscience that so many thoughtless people have offended against and many more have rejected, is something that exists and has… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“The path of compassion does not obligate you to love people regardless of how they act or who they are. It is… — Sanaya Roman Copy Share Image
“When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I wanted to feel like I could extend someone else's joy and not crush it, and that is the giant paradox nowadays… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Forgiveness entails the authentic acceptance of our own worthiness as human beings, the understanding that mistakes are opportunities for growth, awareness and… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
“We are the disposables. No more than krill for the ravenous rich. We are the breathing, two-legged waste products of a dysfunctional… — Edward Fahey Copy Share Image
“Susan said. “Kindness is not dangerous. You have found a way to work and live which allows you to integrate the violence… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What happened under communism - and increasingly, is happening in America, as Joseph Sobran put it: 'Need' now means wanting someone else's… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
If attachment then carries forward in a way that's not healthy, we need to let it be there without making it wrong… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
If you're living in the community and you own your local businesses and you're engaged in the local economy you should have… — David Korten Copy Share Image
“In these meetings of all sorts, every counsel, in proportion as it is daring and violent and perfidious, is taken for the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue.… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
“Down through the middle of the Valley flows the crystal Merced, River of Mercy, peacefully quiet, reflecting lilies and trees and the… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“It isn’t violence that can break through our hearts. It isn’t force that binds us and keeps us together. Only tenderness has… — Jocelyn Soriano Copy Share Image
There is no denying that consideration of others is worthwhile and that our happiness is inextricably bound up with the happiness of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
