Quotes About Compassion

The only person in history who did not deserve to suffer, suffered most.

He loved us to the uttermost. And let us be so moved by this love that it becomes our own.

Tell people the good news from a heart of love and a life of service.

No man," Wilberforce wrote, "has a right to be idle." "Where is it," he asked, "that in such a world as this, health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?

If you have pity for perishing people and a passion for the reputation of Christ, you must care about world missions.

We Christians are called to love our enemies and to suffer injustice rather than return evil for evil (Matt. 5:43–48; Rom. 12:14).

An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load.

Make the mule of your tongue serve the mercy of your heart.

If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday. And the LORD will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

And I would just plead in passing—children, young people, and adults—see people with disabilities. And I don't mean see them like the priest and the Levite on the Jericho Road, passing by on the other side. This is our natural reflex—see and avoid. But we are not natural people. We are followers of Jesus. We have the Spirit of Jesus in our hearts. We have been seen and touched in all our brokenness by an attentive, merciful Savior.

Miqueas 7:18-19:

Therefore, one of God's purposes in the coronavirus is that his people put to death self-pity and fear, and give themselves to good deeds in the presence of danger. Christians lean toward need, not comfort. Toward love, not safety. That's what our Savior is like. That is what he died for.

We humans have never had the resources in ourselves to love each other well across ethnic lines. There is too much selfishness in all of us.

I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord GOD" (Ezekiel 18:32).

no se consiguen ni la salud ni la santidad a base de escapar de la gente que está pereciendo. El camino del amor, por enlodado y peligroso que sea, es el camino a la salud mental y al cielo.

Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.

If you want to fight sin by taking bread away from your own mouth, then put it in the mouth of the poor. Then we will see if you are really fasting for righteousness'sake.

not, let it be always known that the blood of our brothers and sisters….and grandchildren….will be on the hands of America's President. On America itself.

America also has sinned grievously since 1973 in allowing, by law, the killing of as many as fifty five million American babies in, and emerging from, their mothers' wombs. Does anyone seriously think that this carnage would have been allowed to happen if the Church had arisen with one voice and said 'we will not abide the legalized murder of our children in the womb'?

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

Hear with your ears, listen with your heart.

I am a leader, therefore I lead; I am an executive, therefore I execute; I am a human being, therefore I care.

He had a good heart, he wanted to help with the cattle work, he thought he was Head of Ranch Security, but he wasn't very smart and never understood why the cowboys were mad at him all the time." (regarding the original Hank the Cowdog)

Let's say there was a kid that sat next to you in school," said Caepan. "He never smiled and he never laughed. And every day you were expected to say hello to him and talk to him. But he would never talk to you. If he took you out and showed you a good time, you were supposed to thank him. But if he took you out and made sure that you had a lousy time, you were supposed to say, `Well, that's okay because that's the way my friend wanted it.' What would you call that friend?