"Compassion is not sentiment but is making justice……" — Matthew Fox
"Compassion is not sentiment but is making justice and doing works of mercy. Compassion is not a moral commandment but a flow and overflow of the fullest human and divine energies."
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28 Quotes by Matthew Fox
Matthew Fox has 28 quotes on this site.
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If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we…
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Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act…
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Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we…
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Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.
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I directed an episode of 'Party of Five' toward the very end of that show. It was a great experience.
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I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made…
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When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they…
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A job is something we do to get a paycheck and pay our bills. Jobs are legitimate, at times, but…
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We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us.
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Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.
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To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities…
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Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.
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More Commandment Quotes
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Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.
— Bertolt Brecht
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And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country…
— Sharron Angle
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[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands…
— George Washington
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I always tried to live up to Leo Szilard's commandment, "don't lie if you don't have to." I had to.…
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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I trust there are none here present, who profess to be followers of Christ who do not also practice prayer…
— Charles Spurgeon
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It is the daily; it is the small; it is the cumulative injuries of little people that we are here…
— Learned Hand
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If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice.
— Learned Hand
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There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can…
— William James
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'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.
— Richard Dawkins
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The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can…
— Emily Post
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The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and…
— Leo Tolstoy
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