"Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never
will."

"The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It
takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by
an individual than to know no one cares or understands."

"Be content if your seva (service) is to lift a lame lamb
over a stile."

"The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion."

"Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other."

"The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. Ittakes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne byan individual than to know no one cares or understands."

"When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account."

"Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will."

"The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is nomatch with compassion."

"Alcoholics always seem more compassionate than their critics.
It is their compassion which leads them to alcohol."

"Pigeons: fast food for hawks."

"the train rolls by the cows
grazing in the meadows
.. and they hear the moos
the frightened cries
of their fellows
captive in the cars."

"Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness."

"Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count."

"Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with."

"Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world."

"Compassion is no substitute for justice."

"The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter."

"Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy."

"No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim."

"The punishment should never be greater than the crime..
this is the meaning of 'an eye for an eye'

(paraphrased)."

"When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable."

"I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance."

"You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion."

"We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves."

"In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle."

"Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations."

"The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater ;burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands."

"The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another."

"Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless."

"In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity."

"The most heinous sin is to hurt the heart of another."

"The dew of compassion is a tear."

"Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy."

"Even the plum tree is pleased with snow and doesn't care
about freezing or dying houseflies."

"As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences."

"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes."

"A state has the right to prohibit the killing
of dogs and bears whether for film or for other purposes."

"The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty."

"I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it."