Quotes About Compassion

Do not judge and criticize and condemn others, so that you may not be judged and criticized and condemned yourselves. For just as you judge and criticize and condemn others, you will be judged and criticized and condemned, and in accordance with the measure you [use to] deal out to others, it will be dealt out again to you. Matthew 7:1,2

The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Real love has little to do with gooey emotions and goose bumps; and it has everything to do with the choices we make about the way we treat people.

Don't use people to get money and things, but be committed to using money and material goods to bless people. Rich people can do a lot of good for society if they are willing.

If you are willing to give yourself away, you will have a much better life than you ever would have had trying to keep yourself.

We will do better in life if we desire to be useful rather than rich and famous.

What we make happen for someone else, God will make happen for us. Do you sometimes find yourself wishing you had more encouragement, maybe from your family or friends or boss? But how often do you encourage others? If you're not sure, then make an extra effort right away. You can be the channel that God uses to keep someone confidently pressing toward success rather than giving up.

If we are not living our lives to make someone else's better, than we are not really living at all.

Imperfect, but Perfectly Loved

Din moment ce nu exist? oameni perfecÈ›i ÅŸi cu toÈ›ii avem sl?biciuni, e imposibil s? fim într-o relaÈ›ie ÅŸi s? nu fim r?niÈ›i sau dezam?giÈ›i niciodat?.

love always believes the best; it is positive and filled with faith and hope.

I have now learned that we do not even know what "happy" is until we forget about ourselves, start focusing on others, and become generous givers.

Remember, God is not surprised by your faults. He knew about them before you did—and He loves you anyway!

For the Gentiles

Jesus did not leave Peter to drown just because he had done fine for a while and then made a mistake.

Chosen by God for this new life of love, I dress in the wardrobe He picked out for me: compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline. I am even-tempered, content with second place, quick to forgive an offense. I forgive as quickly and completely as the Master forgave me. And regardless of what else I put on, I wear love. It is my basic, all-purpose garment. I never want to be without it. —COLOSSIANS 3:12-14 (THE MESSAGE)

Be gentle and forbearing with one another and, if one has a difference(a grievance or complaint) against another, readily pardoning each other; even as the Lord has [freely] forgiven you, so must you also [forgive]. ( Colossians 3:13 )

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.

The I realized no one wants to hear heroic stories, but everyone likes to be told about someone else's misery.

La experiencia, eso que llamamos experiencia, no es el inventario de nuestros dolores, sino la simpatía aprendida hacia los dolores ajenos.

La Virgen nuestra, nuestra madre, que no quiere saber nada de nuestros pecados; que se echa la culpa de nuestros pecados; la que quisiera llevarnos en sus brazos para que no nos lastime la vida, está aquí junto a nosotros, aliviándonos el cansancio y las enfermedades del alma y de nuestro cuerpo ahuatado, herido y suplicante.

Life is ridiculous, so why not be a good guy?" That may be the only religion I have to this day.

Don't be a jerk. Try to love everyone. Give more than you take. And do it despite the fact that you only really like about 7 out of five hundred people.

People didn't get nice by accident, did they? They had parents who were nice. Nice to their kids, nice to others.