Quotes About Compassion

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

God's mercy often comes folded into his justice.

The love of Jesus upholds justice and extends mercy.

God saves Christians not because they have been righteous but because he is merciful

Treat the patient, not the Xray.

Research indicates that the highest performing managers and leaders are the most open and caring. The best leaders demonstrate more affection toward others and want others to be more open with them. They are more positive and passionate, more loving and compassionate, and more grateful and encouraging than their lower performing counterparts.

His captors asked why he, a nonslaveholder, was fighting to uphold slavery. He replied: "I'm fighting because you're down here."7

Given the impossibility of not failing one another, when the Bible says, "We all stumble in many ways,"7 the only way forward in loving community with one another is forgiveness.

Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the counselor's mind is, "How can I pray for you?

Be loving in conflict or be loving in frustration or let love command your every interaction because "love never fails.

In our homes, where we work, in our friendships, we come inevitably to a fork in the road where we must decide, "Will I forgive that?" If the answer is yes, we go forward together in love. If we choose "no, I will not forgive," at that point we will tend to amplify the fault we observe to excuse our withdrawal into bitterness. Everyone loses—and the gospel most of all.

Love is selfless! Love is "you before me" decision making. Need it shorter? Love = Ub4me! There it is.

Love is what we need in friendship when we stumble, and truth is what we need when we stray.

Do all you can to defeat selfish shepherding in your own heart. We

Men need to know that you don't need to become a woman to love others as God designed for the benefit of all.

advancing the cause of Jesus that didn't begin and end with love. I was wrong, totally wrong, and had to come to the place where I grieved the failure to love as the greatest failure a Christian is capable of.

Scripture is so clear that love for God must translate into love for those closest to us.2

people who have been saved by grace grow to love giving grace to others.

When we see the faults of others, we are to forgive and forbear in humility.

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

When John O'Malley was a Jesuit novice, an older priest told him three things to remember when living in community: First, you're not God. Second, this isn't heaven. Third, don't be an ass.

Paradoxically, admitting your own powerlessness can free you from the need to fix everything and allow us to be truly present to the other person, and to listen. A cartoon in The New Yorker had one woman saying testily to her friend, 'There's no point in our being friends if you won't let me fix you.