Quotes about Compassion
What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
- Catherine of Siena
Fathers need to be tough and tender...you be tough for your family, be tender with your family. You protect them, and you be a safe place.
- Mark Driscoll
You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to me. My father is gone.
- Michael Jordan
A child's cry touches a father's heart.
- Charles Spurgeon
My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.
- Marianne Williamson
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
- NT Wright
Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.
- Mahatma Gandhi
We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined...they are individuals in their own right.
- Jane Goodall
When you focus on serving, there is no fear in you.
- Tony Robbins
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
- Wayne Dyer