Quotes About Compassion

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

You should never take more than you give

But I'd rather try and build a bridge to someone on the opposite side to me than put up a wall.

AIDS might as well stand for "Appalling Indifference to the Disenfranchised in Society.

Me dio mucha pena, pero creo que a veces una pregunta cruel es un favor a largo plazo.

Los malos se vuelven buenos al final de la vida. Eso está ya muy visto. Pero es lo que tienen los viejos. Que despistan. Que despiertan una compasión que a lo mejor no merecen. (...) Por eso a mi cuando se me sienta un abuelo al lado y me empieza a dar la brasa con su soledad, le digo: un momento, señor, que yo también tengo muchos traumas".

What's so funny about peace, love and understanding

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be smarter than them.

Don't criticize that man unless you have walked in his shoes.

Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.

We will never deal gently with our husband's failures if we haven't first drunk deeply of God's gentleness with us in Christ. We will never deal gently with him if we don't see ourselves as that adulterous bride God lovingly betrothed to Himself.

Live your life transparently so other women will see that Jesus loves the weak, the weary, the wounded, and the sinner, and perhaps they, too will be emboldened to stop faking it.

The world feeds us a steady diet of it's-okay-if-you-are-a-nice-person sprinkled with a bit of if-you-try-your-hardest and topped with a strong drink of you-meant-well.

In life there isn't always such an easy resolution. One has to treat people as responsible for their actions, and yet also recognize that they can't help what they do. It's always easier to regard others from the outside. But one can also try to imagine them as they experience themselves, as we all do, from the inside. Then it becomes possible to see that we all deserve mercy.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.

Love comes into being through useful service to others.

Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.

A spiritual church first becomes a church when it acts as bidden by charity, charity being the true teaching of faith.

A call to love all and sundry or to live for others is never a big ask i.e. it is not a difficult task to undertake. Yes! what it takes is just to realize that God almighty gave you all that you know and all that you have presently including your money, riches, wisdom and insights. And so, he (God) expects you to share it all with someone else or others. Emeasoba George

A call to truly love all and to support or sponsor a good cause is just a walk-through i.e. it is an undemanding task or role. Yes! you heard me right. All it takes is just concession, mutual compassion, a large heart and a cheerful heart. -Emeasoba George

A generous person is anyone who freely gives out anything tangible or intangible even more than it's necessary or expected of him or her. Are you generous at all? If YES then, do keep the fire burning. But if NO then, you've got to have a rethink and afterwards dare to be generous and do remain generous. For, it really pays to be generous. You can take my words for it/that. -Emeasoba George