“I found it (the word 'mercy') occurs 261 times in the Bible-and seventy-two percent of them are in the Old Testament. That's… — Norman L. Geisler Copy Share Image
The idea of caring is that someone is making money faster [than you are] is one of the deadly sins. Envy is… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“To suffer and to be rejected are not identical. Suffering can be celebrated and admired. It can arouse compassion. But to be… — Jurgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work,… — Karen Elson Copy Share Image
“Every closed door was a mercy, every delay a setup. What didn’t choose you wasn’t qualified to carry you. No losses—just divine… — Dr. Angela L. Hood Copy Share Image
“Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving.… — Thomas Edison Copy Share Image
“You are the very creator and co-creator of your own reality. When you allow yourself to remember what you already know about… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
“It's not a question we ask ourselves enough, I think; as a country, we seem to be suffering from an empathy deficit.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I held in my hand an invisible sword that sliced through every illusion. The sharpness of the blade gave me its icy… — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
“Two of my closest seminary friends broke all contact with me after I told them I was leaving priesthood and coming out… — Charles Benedict Copy Share Image
If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die,… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Tis not, to cry God mercy, or to sit And droop, or to confess that thou hast fail'd: 'Tis to bewail the… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Creating my own roles, as an actor, is great. You're so at the mercy of other people, and you're waiting for a… — Catherine Bell Copy Share Image
Sentient compassion is a must; it has to be developed in order to alleviate cruelty and thoughtless acts. That won't happen if… — David S. Ware Copy Share Image
“But this is terrible!’ cried Frodo. ‘Far worse than the worst that I imagined from your hints and warnings. O Gandalf, best… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Tears came to her eyes. Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder, and Randa didn’t deserve it. And even… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in which all ethics… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Why do we fail? Is it because we are unlucky? Is it because we have not worked very hard? I s it… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I no longer become angry. I not only do not say angry words, I do not even think angry thoughts! If someone… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
The inner tranquility comes from the development of Love ,Compassion and recognizing that Everyone Grieves In Their Own Way And At Their… — JSV Copy Share Image
“Give grace to your children today by speaking of sin and mercy. Tell Susan that she can relax into God’s loving embrace… — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“I’m thinking that I love drugs more than anything. That they are the one and only constant in my life. Yeah, they… — Peter Stenson Copy Share Image
“I told myself that evening what I had been telling my clients for years. I am more than broken. In fact, there… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“This witnessing consciousness, this formless dimension of yourself, is the awareness in which your experience happens, yet it remains untouched by this… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“He searched her face for the hint of compassion. It wasn’t there. She had never written a word of fiction in her… — James A. Newman Copy Share Image
In his mercy, He sent the storm itself to make us seek help. And then knowing that we're likely to get the… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
“Judaism and Christianity, and Islam too, all drip honeyed words of love and mercy so long as they do not have access… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“Love seeketh not Itself to please Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease And builds a Heaven… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Adversity is what illuminates quagmires, but all that really matters is destiny.We cannot be blinded by present circumstances which roar like Goliath… — Trinity Tinashe Masunungure Copy Share Image
A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing… — Maureen O'Hara Copy Share Image
As the mother of six, Karen Santorum knows the power of stories to shape and mold the nature of our children. In… — Janet Parshall Copy Share Image
“We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong to our ethnic,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Compassion has to become a discipline. It's something that you do. It's no good thinking that you agree with compassion or not,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Hoping a situation will change keeps you at a distance from your true feelings-sadness, anger, fear. Each of these feelings is best… — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
“Life's greatest philosophy is not handed down in stoic texts and dusty tomes, but lived, in each breath and act of human… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
I think of veganism humbly and holistically. It's about taking personal responsibility in a world so full of needless suffering. It's challenging… — Michael Greger Copy Share Image