Best compassion & hate Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.”

People Feels Writing Hate Felt Loses Compassion Loneliness Sorrow Forgiving

Author:Louise Penny

“As we hate ourselves less, we tend to hate other people less too.”

People Hate Compassion Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Intelligence is derived from two words - inter and legere - inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose'. An intelligent person, therefore, is one who has learned 'to choose between'. He knows that good is better than evil, that confidence should supersede fear, that love is superior to hate, that gentleness is better than cruelty, forbearance than intolerance, compassion than arrogance, and that truth has more virtue than ignorance.”

Knows Should Persons Two Hate Evil Love Is Compassion Virtue Ignorance Intelligent Intelligence Superiors Cruelty Arrogance Intolerance Gentleness Forbearance Intelligent Person

Author:J. Martin Klotsche

“Rather than saying 'I hate mess', it might draw more compassion to say, 'mess terrifies me as a harbinger of catastrophe'.”

Might Hate Compassion Draws I Hate Mess Catastrophe Hate Me Harbinger

Author:Alain de Botton

“No age has been more prone to confuse the sin with the sinner, not by hating the sinner along with the sin but by loving the sin along with the sinner. We often use "compassion" as an equivalent for moral relativism.”

Has Beens Use Age Hate Sin Compassion Moral Sinner Relativism Moral Relativism

Author:Peter Kreeft

“I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he was standing in front of me, I would not shoot him. This is the compassion I have learned from Mohammed, the prophet of mercy, Jesus Christ and Lord Buddha. This the legacy of change I have inherited from Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Mohammed Ali Jinnah. This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa. And this is the forgiveness that I have learned from my father and from my mother. This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.”

“Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between the deed and the perpetrator, between the sinner and the sin, to hate and condemn the sin while being filled with compassion for the sinner.”

Hate Turns Sin Compassion Filled Deeds Theology Demon Sinner Perpetrators Diabolical

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Of course the more you love the sinner the more you hate and make war on the sin, just as the more you love the person, the more you hate and kill the cancer cells that are killing the person. Compassion for cancer cells does not come from compassion for persons; it comes precisely from lack of compassion for persons.”

Persons Doe War Hate Courses Sin Compassion Killing Cancer Cells Sinner Lack Of Compassion

Book:Ecumenical Jihad: Ecumenism and the Culture War

Source: Ecumenical Jihad: Ecumenism and the Culture War

“Jesus is challenging that when addressing "who is your neighbor" and he has a lot of hard things to say about family, "unless you hate your own family you are not going to be a disciple." He is challenging the limits of our compassion and our love as if someone's kid suffers it should be as devastating to us as if it were our own kid. That is what the early church said.”

Ifs Should Said Hard Kids Suffering Hate Jesus Challenges Church Compassion Limits Neighbor Disciple Our Love Hate You Hard Things About Family

Author:Shane Claiborne

“True, God hates Alzheimer's, spinal cord injury, mental illness, autism, and the rest (these conditions are all symptoms of the Fall). Yet he permits these things to accomplish something far more precious in our lives: patience, endurance, compassion for others who hurt, and refined faith and trust in God, to name a few.”

“In every one of us there are good seeds and bad. We have the seed of brotherhood, love, compassion, insight. But we have also the seed of anger, hate, dissent.”

Hate Compassion Insight Seeds Brotherhood Dissent Anger Hate

Author:Nhat Hanh

“We try to approach everything in Life After Hate and Exit USA with compassion. While we really promote approaching things with compassion and empathy, because that's what changed us, it's very difficult knowing there are very virulent, vile people who are focused on furthering the Donald Trump cause. Right now we're dealing with a lot of fake news, misinformation, propaganda, parody. My goal is still trying to reach people through compassionate means, and to get them access to real information. My goal is to share my story and get people out of their bubble, so they can empathize.”

People Trying Mean Real Hate Difficult Goal Compassion Share Changed Empathy Focused Propaganda Fake Compassionate Bubbles Misinformation

Author:Christian Picciolini

“I received compassion from the people I deserved it least from when I least deserved it, and that helped change me. When you take fear and isolation and put grievance on top, it's all too easy for people to hate and blame somebody else for their problems.”

People Problem Hate Easy Compassion Blame Isolation Grievance

Author:Christian Picciolini

“There are certain lovers and friends, no matter what fights they get into, you know they're going to get back together because there's something in their personalities that are drawn together - in love or hate or compassion or disappointment.”

Together Hate Fighting Compassion Personality Lovers Disappointment Love Or Hate

Author:Michelle King

“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.”

“If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.”

Ifs Form Hate Dies Compassion Mets Offers Universal Awakening God Love Sentiments Disposition Cleaning Universal Love

Author:Radhanath Swami

“Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.”

Hate Animal Compassion Respect Supposed To Be Don't Hate Hater My Haters Hater Jealousy Haters And Jealousy

Author:Elvis Presley

“If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.”

Ifs Men Hate Compassion Leaving Worthy Gentleness Good Will Sorrowful

Book:Les Miserables Volume One

Source: Les Miserables Volume One

“You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.”

Inspirational Wells Action Suffering Hate Compassion

Author:Dalai Lama

“Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.”

Feels Joy Hate Compassion Capacity Shame Quantity Hate You

Book:I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel

Source: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel

“I hate Erma," I told Mom... "You have to show compassion for her..." She added that you should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. "Everyone has something good about them," she said. "You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that." "Oh yeah?" I said. "How about Hitler? What was his redeeming quality?" "Hitler loved dogs," Mom said without hesitation.”

Should Persons Said Shows Hate Quality Compassion Enemy Worst Dog Mom And Love I Hate Yeah Hesitation Worst Enemy Redeeming Redeeming Qualities

Author:Jeannette Walls

“Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.”

“Understanding transforms, it does not sublimate. If you understand, anger disappears and the same energy becomes compassion. Not that you sublimate: anger simply disappears, and the energy that was involved, invested in anger, is released and becomes compassion. When you understand hate, hate disappears and the same energy becomes love. Love is not against hate -- it is absence of hate.”

Ifs Doe Hate Energy Understanding Love Is Compassion Involved Anger Disappear Absence

Author:Rajneesh

“When hard times come, the greatest danger does not necessarily lie in the circumstances we face, but rather in the way we treat ourselves at the time. Nothing is more dangerous than self-hate. Nothing makes it more difficult to heal or to find the grace of peace than self-attack and the agony of self-doubt.”

Way Doe Self Hard Faces Lying Hate Difficult Compassion Doubt Grace Dangerous Danger Circumstances Treats Heal Hard Times Agony Self-doubt Self Hate

Author:Stephen Schwartz

“Honor to those who in the life they lead define and guard a Thermopylae. Never betraying what is right, consistent and just in all they do but showing pity also, and compassion; generous when they are rich, and when they are poor, still generous in small ways, still helping as much as they can; always speaking the truth, yet without hating those who lie. And even more honor is due to them when they foresee (as many do foresee) that in the end Ephialtis will make his appearance, that the Medes will break through after all.”

Way Stills Ends Helping Lying Hate Poor Compassion Break Rich Honor Appearance Dues Pity Generous Consistent Betray Badass Speak The Truth Break Through Thermopylae Those Who Lie

Author:C.P. Cavafy

“I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.”

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

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