Thomas Merton Quotes About Compassion

Quotes about: Compassion

• Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Book, Love You

• Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

  Thomas Merton

  Compassion, Awareness, Loving Kindness

• 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.

  Thomas Merton

  God, Kindness, Compassion

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.22, Sounds True

• We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

  Thomas Merton

  Forgiveness, Hate, Compassion

• The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.

  Thomas Merton

  Compassion, Ideas, Purpose

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