“We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of compassion.” SelfDoneJobsFormSocialTermCommunityResultsCompassionPovertyMankindPoliticianNormalStandardsBuiltEntrepreneurRaisedWorkersEngagedExecutivesMarchServingCompassionateCapitalistHandfulHealedBannerSocial WorkerSelf Serving Author:Nathaniel Branden
“If I am practicing spiritual poverty, which says that I own nothing, then the problems aren't mine and neither are the energy and compassion pouring through my heart to try to solve them. I am just a link in the process. If I don't take anything personally, then I can do great work without flagging. The Dalai Lama once said, 'Try with all your might - to work very, very hard - to make the world a better place, and if all your efforts are to no avail . . . no hard feelings!'” IfsWorldTryingHeartSaidI CanHardFeelingsProblemMightSpiritualEnergyProcessCan DoEffortCompassionPovertyMinesMy HeartSolveLinksBetter PlaceGreat WorkPouringLamaDalai Author:Bo Lozoff
“I do not believe we can truly enter into our own inner pain and wounds and open our hearts to others unless we have had an experience of God, unless we have been touched by God. We must be touched by the Father in order to experience, as the prodigal son did, that no matter how wounded we may be, we are loved. And not only are we loved, but we too are called to heal and to liberate. This healing power in us will not come from our capacities and our riches, but in and through our poverty. We are called to discover that God can bring peace, compassion and love through our wounds.” BelieveHeartMayHas BeensMatterPainOrderFatherHealingCompassionPovertySonCapacityAnd LoveRichesWoundsHealTouchedWoundedProdigalsProdigal Son Author:Jean Vanier
“And while we stand with conviction and courage, we must live with compassion. Amid a world with massive social needs around us, ranging from desperate poverty and orphan crises and millions of girls being trafficked for sex, to the degradation of marriage and the abortion of babies, we need to speak and act with selfless love on all of these issues.” WorldNeedsGirlSpeakSocialSexCompassionPovertyMillionsIssuesBabyCrisisConvictionDesperateAbortionMassiveSelflessDegradationOrphanSelfless Love Author:David Platt
“Everywhere I go, I see very much the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who live half a world away. I see the same concern about events beyond these borders. And, increasingly, I see the same conviction that we can and we must join together to stop the scourge of AIDS and poverty.” PeopleWorldTogetherHalfCompassionPovertyEventsConcernConvictionAidsBordersHivScourgeEnding PovertyHiv Aids Author:Edward de Bono
“No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. You could afford your house without the government-if it weren't for the government. Character matters; leadership descends from character. If you commit a crime, you're guilty. Compassion is no substitute for justice. Poverty is not the root cause of crime. The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.” IfsMatterCharacterGovernmentHouseNationsCausesJusticeCompassionPovertyCrimeKingsRootsProsperityCommitGuiltyLos AngelesSubstitutesRiotVerdictRoot Cause Author:Rush Limbaugh
“No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.” PeopleHelpingCompassionPovertyLifts Author:John H. McWhorter
“The death of American liberalism as a significant moral force can be traced to the point in when President Bill Clinton signed legislation that effectively ended the main federal anti-poverty program and turned the fate of welfare recipients, 70 percent of whom were children, over to the tender mercies of the states. With a stroke of the pen, Clinton eliminated what remained of New Deal-era compassion for the poor and codified into law the "tough love" callousness that his Republican allies in the Congress, led by Newt Gingrich, had long embraced.” ChildrenLongStatesLawForcePresidentPoorDealsCompassionMoralPovertyFateRepublicanPercentToughProgramMercyBillsClintonCongressSignificantErasWelfareLiberalismPensAlliesLegislationStrokesNewtsNew DealTough LoveCallousnessPresident Bill ClintonTender MerciesWelfare Recipients Author:Robert Scheer
“People say what distinguishes us from the animals is that we think. Well, then why the hell don't we extend some compassion to those under tremendous duress? There's this whole idea that you work really hard so you can deaden your soul to the universe and enjoy yourself only in ways the Sierra Club will let you. But what about enjoying yourself by getting into the whole melee of poverty and racism and violence and murder and drug addiction? Get in there, roll up your sleeves, and do something! Nobody does it.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsDoeIdeasSoulHardWholeUniverseEnjoyAnimalCompassionPovertyHellViolenceDrugRacismMurderAddictionClubsYour SoulSleevesDrug AddictionDrug AddictSierraEnjoy YourselfDuress Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca
“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
“Yahweh demanded justice for the poor, compassion and equality for foreigners and refugees, systemic redress for poverty, structural mechanisms to protect the homeless and family-less from abuse and destitution, fair and equitable distribution of land, integrity in the judicial system, humility, simplicity and morality in the government (as opposed to wealth, women and weapons), etc. etc. If you want that kind of society, you need to be faithful to the living God.” KindWealthJusticePoorCompassionPovertyHumilityMoralityIntegrityProtectAbuseSimplicityFaithfulHomelessRefugeeJudicialBeing Faithful Author:Christopher J. H. Wright
“Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.” PeopleWarSufferingCompassionMoralPovertyDiseaseBlessedObligationPlentyGenerousFamineMoral ObligationGenerous People Author:Adam Schiff
“If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.” PeopleIfsNeedsHelpingHurtPoorCompassionPovertySupportTroubleAdversityAidsHelping OthersAssistancePoor PeopleTough TimesOvercoming AdversityNeedyHurt FeelingsHelping HandHelpersAsking For Help Book:The Grapes of Wrath Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.” ThinkingPersonsCompassionPovertyGreaterSadDiversityForgottenHungerSympathyUnwantedUnlovedBeing SadGreat MotherUncaringHunger And PovertyHunger PovertyHunger For LoveBeing Unloved Author:Mother Teresa
“Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.” BookWisdomFoundUnderstandingCompassionLordPovertyHeardLove YouOffersSurrenderGod LoveAcknowledgeNothingnessSermonsGod Loves YouUnderstanding And Compassion Author:Thomas Merton
“Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged of feeling, so that we may endure all the darkness of the present day.” MayMadeFeelingsMightSocialCompassionPovertyDarknessCapableEthicsEmptyEndureHarvestStewardshipIntercoursePresent DayReaper Author:Muriel Barbery