Quotes About Compassion

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

If you'll spend time praying for people instead of talking about them, you'll get better results.

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

I was shocked that someone I didn't even know would take the time to pray for me.

I've always believed that service to others is rent we pay for our time on this planet.

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

How good it is to be well-fed, healthy, and kind all at the same time.

Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.

You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.

Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember, there is the face of Christ.

Sometimes I wonder will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize God left this place a long time ago.

But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it's how you spend your time on the way down that counts.

I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me

The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.

You cannot correct an old person every time they say something offensive. You would never make it through Thanksgiving dinner!

The most precious gift you can give someone is the gift of your time and attention.

Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

Every time we witness an act that we feel to be unjust and do not act, we become a party to injustice.

I want to see a revolution of kindness, because what happens is, when you're kind and you give, it's infectious. You give one time, and it's a great feeling and you want to do it again and again.

Kindness only goes so far, and then it's time to show your claws.

We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

The human body has absolutely no requirement for animal flesh. Nobody has ever been found face-down 20 yards from Burger King because they couldn't get their Whopper in time.

The only time you should look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them.