Quotes About Compassion

There always have been and there always will be people who have been corrupted into enjoying any excuse for cruelty.

William Langland, writing around 1400, said, 'And all the wickedness in the world that man might work or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal in the sea.

Why is it, she wondered, that things that hurt people make them deeper and more understanding?

O God, here, as so often, I cannot help. Let me not forget she is your child and your concern makes mine as nothing.

We are lost unless we can recover compassion, without which we will never understand charity. We must find, once more, community, a sense of family, of belonging to each other. No wonder our kids are struggling to start communes.

But I have to accept the fact that I am often unwise; that I am not always loving; that I make mistakes; that I am, in fact, human. And as Christians we are not meant to be less human than other people, but more human, just as Jesus of Nazareth was more human.

We want nothing from you that you do without grace," Mrs Whatsit said, "or that you do without understanding.

How do we teach a child--our own, or those in a classroom--to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have--or need--answers.

Everything that we do either draws the Kingdom of love closer, or pushes it further off.

I can't do it for love of God, like Tom Tallis, or for heaven's sake, as Mr. Frost said. But because I love people I have to act according to it—to the fact that I love them.

If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate.

Oh, my darling, you're not dumb," her father answered. "You're like Charles Wallace. Your development has to go at its own pace. It just doesn't happen to be the usual pace.

I wish human beings couldn't have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt.

Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' For our sakes Jesus went through all the suffering we may ever have to endure, and because he cried out those words we may cry them out, too.

Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.

God go with you." "I don't believe in God." "That's all right. I do." "I'm glad.

It's a stage we all go through; it takes a certain amount of living to strike the strange balance between the two errors either of regarding ourselves as unforgivable or as not needing forgiveness.

The Mother asks the sacrifice of love.

An icon is not meant to be an idol. Just a reminder that love is greater than hate.

If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. That's why we still need Namers

there are powers of love in the universe, and as long as you respond with love, they'll help you.

We can't absorb it all. We know too much, too quickly, and one of the worst effects of this avalanche of technology is the loss of compassion.

When two people, lovers, or sometimes friends, have an enduring care for each other, allow each other to be human, faulted, flawed, but real, then being human becomes a glorious thing to be. If the human race ever makes progress, that is how.