#passion

I knew then that this is how God loves us all and receives us all, and that there is no such thing in this universe as hell, except maybe in our own terrified minds. Because if even one broken and limited human being could experience even one such episode of absolute forgiveness and acceptance of her own self, then imagine—just imagine!—what God, in all His eternal compassion, can forgive and accept. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#compassion #forgiveness #god #love #people

I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#back #bet #called #challenged #could

Make no judgements where you have no compassion. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#judgements #make #where #you

They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#bush #cheney #compassionate #conservatives #express

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch? ↗

— Lara St. John

#cannot #classical #classical music #energy #epitome

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience. ↗

— Star Jones

#bossy #compassion #compromise #learn #married

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#believe #cannot #capacity #compassion #does

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#decision #deliberations #guide #must #our

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant. ↗

— June Jordan

#hero #intense #over-the-top #passionate #tyrant

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#ideas #matched #partisan #passion #politics