Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.
Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods.
Why does God endow us with compassion?
I am a great enthusiast and early adopter of technology, but sometimes I wonder whether the inexorable integration of technology in our lives could diminish some of our quintessential human capacities, such as compassion and cooperation.
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.
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.
Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.
Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.
Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.
So many things can be filtered through fandom - joy, compassion, love.
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.
We liberals do sometimes forsake our vows of compassion for all mankind.
The role of the church and the government are fundamentally different. The church must always show compassion - always.
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.
The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues - compassion, wonder, humility, respect for the mysterious - are far from conventionally heroic.
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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.
Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.
