Ability Quote by Joan D. Chittister

Compassion can never coexist with judgement because judgement creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.

— Henri Nouwen

We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels…

— Huston Smith

Any characteristic that you can't stand in another person is an aspect of you that you can't stand in yourself. Once you discover that…

— Bill Ferguson

Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the…

— Henri Nouwen

Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able to see…

— Dalai Lama

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how…

— Nelson Mandela

Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

— Dalai Lama

Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.

— Joan D. Chittister

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

— Robert Kiyosaki

Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share,

— Liam Neeson

A lack of compassion for others arises from an unwillingness to forgive their weaknesses.

— John Bevere

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

— Joan Halifax