Pastoral Resources

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.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

When Christopher and Charles passed away, I was completely depressed, I felt rejected and real down, and so Roscoe invited me because he had this spirit of compassion, and we had gone to school together, were friends and everything.

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

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

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

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might.

Compassion is no substitute for justice.

Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Make no judgements where you have no compassion.