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"I warned myself against the danger of compassion in this case. How easy it would be to imagine the traumas of childhood that might have deformed her into the moral monster she had become, and then to convince myself that those traumas could be balanced - and their effects reversed - by sufficient acts of kindness."
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"The real challenge of compassion, nonviolence and mindfulness is to love in adverse situation."
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"I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one another; to see how they felt for one another, how the heart of each to each was softened by the hard trials of their lives. I think the best side of such people is almost hidden from us. What the poor are to the poor is little known, excepting to themselves and God."
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"The difficulties of people should be our business."
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"So bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down at his knees; he will weep and we shall weep, he will be eloquent and I shall be comforted, and my heart shall melt into his, he will take my soul, and I his God.But what is this kindly old gentleman to me? And what am I to him? Just one more member of the race of unfortunates, one more shade to go with the many he has seen, one more figure to add to his total of executions."
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"When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house."
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"Demonstrate love to the people first, and then teach them to observe biblical principles."
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"One cannot speak about love for God and neighbor without having a standard of communication, respect, honor, and without understanding how precious every human being is."
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"For 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."
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"Find out the needs of the people you are ministering to and help them overcome their fears."
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"Love is not only one of the greatest blessings in your personal life, but when it is extended professionally, the possibilities are endless."
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"You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either."
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"Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind."
Thought
"Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image."
Darkness
"...I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace."
Grace
"In all our lives, however, there are many days when we die a little, when we are wounded by loss or failure, or by fear, or by seeing the suffering of others for whom we are able to offer only pity, for whom we are powerless to offer aid, we are beyond mercy."
Grief
"Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished."
Companionship
"People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros."
Values
"My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty."
Aspiration
"Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing."
Patience
"Then the clarifying thing happens, and what you need to do, what you must do, is not a question, not demand more revelation than what is given, be quiet in the face of it, quiet and grateful that it has been given to you to see this, to be for even a short time aware of the extraordinary layered depths and profound beauty of the world to which we mostly blind ourselves."
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