Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.
Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God's eyes will always have the compassion to understand why.
Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.
Anyone can plot a course with a map or compass; but without a sense of who you are, you will never know if you're already home.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion
If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.
The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.
And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.
My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.
I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.
The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.
Be a person who radiates love, compassion, kindness, tranquility, serenity, peace and joy to burn and purify everything around you.
Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than C...
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.
Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their compassion speaks for itself, and is a shining example of how the business community can have an enormous positive impact on the world.
I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform acts of courage, sacrifice, and compassion for total strangers.
Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.
If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.
