Quotes about Compassion

Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.

We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.

In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.