Quotes About Compassion

He's gonna be fine," I confirmed. Can we see him?" Iggy asked. Ig, I hate to break it to you, but you're blind.

Never deprecate another person's sufferings even when imaginary.

I don't think of people as queer or straight," the Doc said. "Not when you're as old as I. And I don't think God does either." "I didn't know you believed in God, Doc," Vance said.

Carla had the American woman's fixed idea that love can cure, love can heal, love can bind a flowing wound.

Mankind's moral sense is not a strong beacon light, radiating outward to illuminate in sharp outline all that it touches. It is, rather, a small candle flame, casting vague and multiple shadows, flickering and sputtering in the strong winds of power and passion, greed and ideology. But brought close to the heart and cupped in one's hands, it dispels the darkness and warms the soul.

To Jesus it is inconceivable that someone would dare ask God for full and free forgiveness while remaining as an unforgiving person towards others. The forgiven forgive and the forgivers are forgiven.

Better to build orphanages than prisons.

Private charity can apply 'tough love' but government charity can't.

Those who help the poor the most hurt them the most.

It should never be about what side of the fence you are on, but, rather: what is right; fair; just; and above all, what is humane. If not, we are of no significance. We are nothing — certainly, we have nothing to offer the world of any great importance. By doing so — by doing what is right, fair, just, and humane — we ameliorate ourselves to becoming honorable people, which many of us have yet to attain.

When we dislike someone, or feel threatened by someone, the natural tendency is to focus on something we dislike about the person, something that irritates us. Unfortunately, when we do this--instead of seeing the deeper beauty of the person and giving them energy--we take energy away and actually do them harm. All they know is that they suddenly feel less beautiful and less confident, and it is because we sapped their energy.

In reality, there are no enemies; we're all souls in growth, waking up

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world." — Marianne Williamson

when it was your people being persecuted, it opened your eyes to the inhumanity of your actions.

A soldier picked up the still-living girl and carried her to the barren fireplace.

Henry Morton Stanley's rescue of Dr. David Livingstone

in the face of inhumanity, a good man reacts--but a great one acts.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Not what we give, But what we share, For the gift without the giver Is bare.

Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!

I am a man more sinned against than sinning" (Lear, 9.60).

It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others.