#compass

To be calm and compassionate you need courage and conviction. ↗

— Solange nicole

#life-lessons #self-discovery #self-improvement #solange #courage

I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any account postpone the writing or the making of it. The difference made will almost certainly be more than you have calculated ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#death #friendship #illness #love #solidarity

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you ↗

— Walt Whitman

#civil-war #compassion #comrade #comradeship #death

Hope finds its fulfillment when nurtured through faith and shared with love. ↗

— Mollie Marti

#compassion #happiness #hope #kindness #strength

Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or her into the experience of weakness and powerlessness, become part of the uncertainty, and give up control and self-determination. (p. 12) ↗

— Henri J. M. Nouwen Donald P. McNeill Douglas A. Morrison

#presence #experience

Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation, physical restraint, or painful situations from which they cannot escape. Even if it is not the same experience of pain, anxiety, or suffering undergone by humans- or even other animals, including members of the same species- an individual's pain, suffering, and anxiety matter. ↗

— Marc Bekoff

#animals #compassion #pain #speciesism #suffer

To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33)... The gospel portrait of the beloved Child of Abba is that of a man exquisitely attuned to His emotions and uninhibited in expressing them. The Son of Man did not scorn of reject feelings as fickle and unreliable. They were sensitive antennae to which He listened carefully and through which He perceived the will of His Father for congruent speech and action. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#compassion #emotions #faith #feelings #holy-spirit

We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#compassion #faith #god #jesus #salvation

Nothing renews my faith in humanity more than the exchange of compassion so profound that mere words cannot embrace it. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#empathy #humanity #love #faith

The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion. ↗

— Marcus J. Borg

#individualism #politics #religious-right #righteousness #faith