“My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing words, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called science.” WantSpiritUniverseCompassionLimitsWideKingdomsWithout LoveWithout GodWeighing Author:Gustave Flaubert
“The world was created because God willed it, but why did He will it? Judaism has maintained, in all of its versions, that this world is the arena that God created for man, half beast and half angel; to prove that he could be a moral being...man was given dominion over nature, but he was commanded to behave towards the rest of creation with justice and compassion. Man lives, always, in tension between his power and the limits set by his conscience.” MenWorldGivenJusticeHalfCompassionMoralCreationThis WorldProveLimitsConscienceAngelEnvironmentalGods WillVersionsBehaveBeastTensionJudaismArenaStewardshipDominion Author:Arthur Hertzberg
“There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing, - he dominated them and didn't even want to be an 'animal.'” MenWantFirstsFeltAnimalCompassionLimitsParadiseAmusingBlunders Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“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.” IfsShouldSaidHardKidsSufferingHateJesusChallengesChurchCompassionLimitsNeighborDiscipleOur LoveHate YouHard ThingsAbout Family Author:Shane Claiborne
“Love has no limits. Compassion has no party. It is the responsibility of every human being and every institution to end poverty and to interrupt injustice.” HumansEndsHuman BeingsPartyResponsibilityCompassionPovertyLimitsInstitutionsInjustice Author:Shane Claiborne
“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.” IfsDoeFreedomAnimalCompassionKindnessMankindCreaturesLimitsEthicsRootsEmbraceDepthCrueltyVegetarianVeganAnimal RightsAnimal WelfareAnimal CrueltyLiving CreaturesAnimal LoveLove And CompassionBreadthKindness And CompassionHuman AnimalAnimal WorldSentient BeingsHumans And AnimalsPet AnimalsAnimal LifeAnimal CompassionThinking ManAnimal EthicsCruel WorldAnimal TestingAnimals In NatureNature And AnimalsCompassion For YourselfSmall CreaturesRespect LifeHuman Beings And Animals Book:A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer Source: A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer
“There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as quickly as possible of the painful emotion aroused by the sight of another's unhappiness, that pity which is not compassion, but only an instinctive desire to fortify one's own soul agains the sufferings of another; and the other, the only one at counts, the unsentimental but creative kind, which knows what it is about and is determined to hold out, in patience and forbearance, to the very limit of its strength and even beyond.” KnowsHeartKindTwoSoulDesireSufferingEmotionCompassionCreativeLimitsWeakSightPainfulDeterminedPityUnhappinessSentimentalImpatienceForbearance Author:Stefan Zweig