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"I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere."

Wooden, John on passion    Share


"We could hardly wait to get up in the morning."

Wright, Wilbur on passion    Share

"In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity."

Baxter, Anne on passion    Share

"Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural."

Berger, John on passion    Share

"I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it."

Bernanos, Georges on passion    Share

"Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives."

Bhagavad Gita on passion
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"The dew of compassion is a tear."

Byron, Lord on passion
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"I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance."

Casals, Pablo on passion
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"The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter."

Cousins, Norman on passion
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"Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will."

Cowper, William on passion    Share

"The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion."

Dirksen, Everett M. on passion    Share

"You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion."

Eckhart, Meister on passion
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"We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves."

Eliot, George on passion    Share

"Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless."

Hoffer, Eric on passion
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"The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty."

Johnson, Samuel on passion    Share

"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes."

Kundera, Milan on passion
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"Compassion is no substitute for justice."

Limbaugh, Rush on passion    Share

"When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account."

Long, Haniel on passion    Share

"Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations."

Lutzer, Erwin W. on passion    Share

"Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness."

May, Rollo on passion    Share

"The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another"

Merton, Thomas on passion    Share

"Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with."

Miedzian, Myriam on passion    Share

"Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!"

Paglia, Camille on passion    Share

"No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim."

Pasternak, Boris on passion    Share

"Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy."

Sade, Marquis De on passion    Share

"Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world."

Schaeffer, Francis on passion    Share

"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace."

Schweitzer, Albert on passion    Share

"Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill."

Shakespeare, William on passion    Share

"The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater ;burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands."

Stainback, Arthur H. on passion    Share

"As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences."

Stowell, Joseph on passion    Share

"Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other."

Stowell, Joseph on passion
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"When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable."

Thích Nhat Hanh on passion
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"Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy."

Trungpa, Chogyam on passion    Share

"He who feels no compassion will become insane."

Unknown, Source on passion    Share

"A man in a passion rides a horse that runs away with him"

thomas fuller on passion    Share

"Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity."

Stojanovic, Dejan on passion    Share

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