Pastoral Resources

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

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.

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.

You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.

Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.