Quotes About Compassion

I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi. For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.

There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.

And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?

Keep on loving each other as brothers and sisters. Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it. —HEBREWS 13:1–2

For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. —MATTHEW 6:14–15

Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing. —1 PETER 3:9

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. —ROMANS 12:14

Agonies are one of my changes of garments; I do not ask the wounded person how he feels...I myself become the wounded person.

Most kids grow up wanting to work with animals. There's a good reason for that. The alternative is to work with humans.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering.

While generosity is about more than just money, bear in mind that the idea of it is really based not so much on what you give but rather what you have left after you give.

I've decided that I can also touch the hearts of many - dead people, but the living, too. (Cameryn Mahoney)

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

I need a heart so pure that if it's stripped bare by dementia, it will survive.

She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.

I clenched my teeth and fists to stop them biting and scratching these clever men who want no care for the helpless sick small, who use religions and politics to stay comfortably superior to all that pain: who make religions and politics, excuses to spread misery with fire and sword and how could I stop all this? I did not know what to do.

Could kindness – by only ever taking little steps – twist itself into the worst kind of cruelty?

This one could turn her back on her own dying father, or watch a blinded man whimper in pain and not give one cold cuss.

None of us is a monster, Chiku. We're all just trying to make the best of our singular natures.

This is a kindness, a thing done to another human being for no reason other than compassion. A private, dignified act of basic human decency, which history, being the bastard that it is, will probably neglect to commemorate. You