"Some people find the experience and practice of……" — Marcus Borg
"Some people find the experience and practice of compassion as a spiritual discipline to be a more direct route to the transformation of the heart than prayer. It is not that prayer does not or should not play a role in their lives, but their way to the opening of the heart lies through deeds of compassion. "Just do it" summarizes this path of transformation."
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Marcus Borg
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18 Quotes by Marcus Borg
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.
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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants;…
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.
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