Age Quote by Karen Armstrong

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to…

— Karen Armstrong

I always try to share with others the idea that in order to become compassionate it is not necessary to become religious.

— Anonymous

Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test…

— Karen Armstrong

I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to choose whether…

— Dalai Lama

Religions don't own compassion; it is a human virtue.

— Karen Armstrong

To be compassionate is to experience divinity in our everyday life

— Dada JP Vaswani

“The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion.”

— Marcus J. Borg

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the…

— Karen Armstrong

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it…

— Dalai Lama

Compassion is something really worthwhile. It is not just a religious or spiritual subject, not a matter of ideology. It is not a luxury,…

— Dalai Lama

The world is full of incredible people who are embodiments of compassion. Some of them have a spiritual path; some of them don't.

— Tenzin Palmo

When we are being compassionate, we consider another's circumstance with love rather than judgement... To be compassionate is to move into the right here,…

— Jill Bolte Taylor