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Compassion Quotes by Joan D. Chittister
- Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.
- Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all times.
- Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others.
- It is precisely women’s experience of God that this world lacks. A world that does not nurture its weakest, does not know God the birthing…
- Compassion for the other comes out of our ability to accept ourselves. Until we realize both our own weaknesses and our own privileges, we can…
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- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar. — Karen Armstrong
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a… — Sri Aurobindo
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. — Michele Bachmann
- Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. — James M. Barrie
- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer
- One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit. — Gary Bauer