Quotes on "Compassion"
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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.
Norman Cousins
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
William Cowper
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
Lord Byron
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
Pablo Casals
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The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion .
Everett M. Dirksen
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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
George Eliot
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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Eric Hoffer
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The wretched have no compassion , they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Samuel Johnson
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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.
Milan Kundera
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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.
Erwin W. Lutzer
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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.
Thomas Merton
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Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
Francis Schaeffer
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Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
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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.
Arthur H. Stainback
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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.
Joseph Stowell
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Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
Rollo May
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