Quotes About Compassion

I would beat with your heart as it beats, I would follow your soul as it leads.

Thena . . . I fell in love with you as you are. Fractured, maybe. Lost, perhaps. But I'm no prize either.

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; which means that if the rest of us want to get close to God, we seek them out-not because of what we could possible offer them, as if we're the spiritual first responders on the scene to save the day, but because we recognize how much they have to teach us about who God really is." -Quoted by Sarah Arthur, Author of The One Year Daily Grind.

We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.

Don't confuse mercy for forgiveness.

Cultivate kindness. Never steal anyone's hope.

I want to go to the mother, take her hand, and tell her that although she and her daughter believe that every bad choice the daughter has ever made in life is her fault, it's not. It's really, really not.

A woman predisposed to be a mother can learn to love any baby, while a mother not so disposed does not even learn to love her own.

At 17, the first time I saw a dead body, I froze. By 31 it was a natural occurrence for me, and no group of people should live like that.

We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.

I just strive to do better. Every time I meet somebody, I ask myself, "How can I help this person?"

Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It's a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.

You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.

I couldn't be with someone who is depressed all the time.

I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.

Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.

There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion.

If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.

The world is healed one loving thought at a time.

Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.

Sometimes you've gotta hide the medicine in the food. You can't slap somebody in the face with facts, all the time. It's too harsh.

I think if Jesus came for the first time, and he was 33 1/2 years old and hung out with these guys, where would he be? They'd probably be at a coffee bar getting a latte or something.

The thing I have to keep in mind and I try to keep in mind about myself, about anyone, is you do the best you can do at the time.

If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.