Quotes About Compassion

So began a long instruction in whatever he could trust her to forgive.

Let me say first of all that the grace of God is sufficient to any transgression, and that to judge is wrong, the origin and essence of much error and cruelty.

My heart was very heavy. There was Boughton sitting in his Morris chair staring at nothing. Glory told me the only words he had said all day were Jesus never had to be old.

Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it.

This came to my mind because remembering and forgiving can be contrary things.

Religion could quiet our antagonisms if we let it be what it is fundamentally and at best.

And I'd pray for them. And I'd imagine peace they couldn't expect and couldn't account for descending on their illness or their quarreling or their dreams.

At a certain level housekeeping is a regime of small kindnesses, which, taken together, make the world salubrious, savory, and warm.

The concept of the soul is the profoundest possible bond among us, an unshakable basis for compassion, recognition, and love, which, acknowledged, would enable us to love enemies, welcome strangers, and all the rest.

The parents of these young soldiers would come to me and ask how the Lord could allow such a thing. I felt like asking them what the Lord would have to do to tell us He didn't allow something. But instead I would comfort them by saying we would never know what their young men had been spared. Most of them took me to mean they were spare the trenches and the mustard gas, but what I really meant was that they were spared the act of killing.

I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.

I believe in friendship and I'm willing to show my friendship first.

The art of this was to ignore all insults, all threats; to turn the other cheek.

It was not necessary that he be your friend, it was not even important that you had no means with which to repay him. Only one thing was required. That you, you yourself, proclaim your friendship. And then, no matter how poor or powerless the supplicant, Don Corleone would take that man's troubles to his heart.

No profieras amenaza alguna. Razona con la gente.» El arte del razonamiento consistía en desoír todos los insultos, todas las amenazas; algo así como poner la otra mejilla.

How terrible man had been to his fellow man could be measured by the great exodus from what seemed to be a Garden of Eden.

It's easier to imagine the death of one person than those of a hundred or a thousand. When multiplied, suffering becomes abstract. It's not easy to be moved by abstract things.

Un libro abierto es un cerebro que habla; cerrado, un amigo que espera; olvidado, un alma que perdona; destruido, un corazón que llora».

Cuando las cosas no tenían marcha atrás, no valía la pena perder el tiempo preguntándose si hubiera sido preferible que no ocurrieran. Mejor tratar de enrumbarlas por el buen camino. Siempre era posible enderezar lo que andaba torcido. ¿No era está la mejor enseñanza de Cristo?

Y es el sufrimiento del alma, sobre todo, el que hace buenos a los buenos

Una acción virtuosa, un gesto de desprendimiento, un acto solidario despiertan, dice, una sensación de belleza comparable a la que deparan un bello paisaje, una música armoniosa o una vida que transcurre dentro de la prudencia, el respeto del prójimo, la amistad y la conducta irreprochable.

Even if someone wasn't perfect or even especially good, you couldn't dismiss the love they felt. Love was always love; it had a rightness all its own, even if the person feeling the love was full of wrongness.

Everything turned on the word we, a synonym for love, the thing that saves us all.

To be sensitive is fine, but it makes day-to-day living- life -rather painful.