“Jesus Christ is full of compassion.”
“Sometimes, when you re losing someone, you hang on to whatever tradition you can.”
“Burying oneself in holy books and traditions, doesn t bring holiness, what does is, losing oneself in the service of others.”
“if your purpose is to find enlightenment, then seek it not outside, but inside, and if your purpose is helping others, then renounce nothing but your obsession for possessions and help those in need in whichever way you can.”
“To be kind is to be human.”
“Do you know the value of life? Would you give your scripture up for burning in a cold winter evening so that a few people can have some heat? Would you dress up as Santa Claus and give away gifts, bought with your hard earned money, to bring smiles on the faces of your neighborhood children? Would you give your turban up to dress the wound of a stranger? Would you go out and fix the potholes on the streets of your neighborhood yourself, instead of waiting for the government to do so? Would you rush to the aid of strangers when they are struck by disaster? If yes, then there is no greater enlightenment for you to receive - there is no greater divinity for you to acquire - there is no greater godliness for you to attain.”
“It s not enough to be born as a human body, each human must earn his or her admission into the human race with humane actions.”
“Savior art thou and thy will be done, but only if thou stop groveling in front of the altars of imaginary divinity and act.”
“There is a difference between acting good and being good.”
“Hatred is opposite to God, opposite to spirituality. Any form of hatred in the name of country, color, religion, prophet or cult are the darkest ignorance of human consciousness.”
“Two things that will never work together: compassion and judgment. You gonna have to let one of them go.”
“True Compassion is showing Kindness towards animals, without expecting anything in return”
“Love is the current principle as it underwrites all matters of our universe. Loving one another is therefore a principal matter for all of us. And as such, we choose to stay present in its noble truth each and every moment of the now. Now then and forever more, let our hearts continue to overflow with love instead of fear as we are truly one in its intent; the source of all life. We are but one kindred brotherhood of wo-man-kind living the beautiful reality of love that we call life.”
“If you want others to be happy practice compassion; and if you want yourself to be happy practice compassion”
“Better storytelling can overcome our deepest barriers.”
“He was thinking, no doubt, that this man, whose name is Jean Valjean, had his misfortune only too vividly present in his mind; that the best thing was to divert him from it, and to make him believe, if only momentarily, that he was a person like any other, by treating him just in his ordinary way. Is not this indeed, to understand charity well?”
“The kindness which consists in upholding a woman of the town against a citizen, the police agent against the mayor, the man who is down against the man who is up in the world, is what I call false kindness. That is the sort of kindness which disorganizes society. Good God! it is very easy to be kind; the difficulty lies in being just.”