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"When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity " that was a quality God's image carried with it. When you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination."
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"There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?"
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"But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day."
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"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
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"Because no one is walking in your shoes, only you feel the sores on your feet."
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"Just because an impressive storm doesn't touch you, you must not find it beautiful! Lend an ear to the voices of those which are under the storm!"
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"When someone is suffering, there is a deep, visceral reaction in the core of our being, a flood of empathy and a frightfully desperate compulsion to give aid."
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"Weeping for other people's pain isn't true weeping if it doesn't come from deep down your heart."
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"Before hurting others, feel the pain you will inflict on others."
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"We always feel the brunt of the blow dealt to us, but hardly ever do we feel the impact we have on others. Why is that?"
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"Why must you know the details of my troubles to have compassion? Is it not enough to show compassion simply because you know that everyone has troubles?"
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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
Thought
"They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness."
Love
"In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!"
Love
"When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity " that was a quality God's image carried with it. When you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination."
Empathy
"The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching."
Education
"A man becomes trustworthy when you trust him."
Ethics
"It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes."
Change
"For a moment he came near to sharing their incredible belief-it would do no harm to mutter a prayer of thanks to the God of his childhood, the God of the Common and the castle, that no ill had yet come to Sarah's child. Then a sonic boom scattered the words of the hymn and shook the old glass of the west window and rattled the crusader's helmet which hung on a pillar, and he was reminded again of the grown-up world. He went quickly out and bought the Sunday papers. The Sunday Express had a headline on the front page-"Child's Body Found in Wood."
Reality
"It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too."
Society
"You are all alike, you people. You never learn the truth--that God knows nothing."
Belief
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