Quotes About Compassion

I believe God loves everyone.

People did not come to God through Jesus as much as they saw the priorities of God in Jesus.

There'll be times," Pastor Taylor had told Sam in a quiet, hesitant voice, "when your flock will minister to you. Dark nights of the soul when it feels you've lost your way. And you have to let them. Sam, you have to let them help you.

The more I work on loving Jesus, the easier it becomes to love my family. Maybe it's really a matter of putting first things first. When we love the way of Jesus first, we're then sufficiently equipped to love our families.

Here's a good test to know whether or not truth-telling springs from love. Truth will not only pain those who hear it; it will pain those who speak it. If we don't love someone, it won't hurt at all to speak truth. We'll tell them what we think with no regard for their feelings. If

I believe there is no One True Church, no One True Faith, no single path to God. There are only compassion and grace, and where they are found, God is present, yearning to know and be known.

I believe God will save every person.

God is love. When people claim to speak for God, there should be love in their words.

When you think of the Gay Plague, it's really for the best these days that we put on a cheerful face and get on with what queens do best.

Hirschfeld did not regard homosexuality as immoral, and much of his work sought to establish the humanity of those with desires other than the norm. In doing so, he uncovered some sad stories of suffering.

Kindness is wisdom.

The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.

This is the meaning of life, my friend. To know when you are well off and to hate or envy no man.

I've come to believe that in life it's best to live for a purpose greater than oneself.

Yes indeed, I thought, a neat piece of theatre. I was going to enjoy putting these people away. You can sometimes forgive a man who works a line, but not the ones who prey on the grief and suffering of others. That was like stealing the cushions off a pair of crutches.

The first day after a death, the new absence Is always the same; we should be careful Of each other, we should be kind While there is still time. From "The Mower

It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.

The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found A hedgehog jammed up against the blades, Killed. It had been in the long grass. I had seen it before, and even fed it, once. Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world Unmendably. Burial was no help: Next morning I got up and it did not. The first day after a death, the new absence Is always the same; we should be careful Of each other, we should be kind While there is still time. - The Mower

we should be careful of each other, we should be kind While there is still time.

In everyone there sleeps A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make By loving others, but across most it sweeps As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures. An immense slackening ache, As when, thawing, the rigid landscape weeps, Spreads slowly through them — — Philip Larkin, from "Faith Healing," The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin , ed. Archie Burnett (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2012)

I have tried to write poetry for people for whom there is no poetry.

There is more to being a great leader than just doing a task well. There is communication, empathy, respect, and compassion. You do the last one well and they will jump thru hurdles for you.

When we find God in the world, We help the world.

What Caul liked most about Tom was his kindness. Kindness was not valued back in Grimsby, where the older boys were encouraged to torment the younger ones, who would grow up to torment another batch of youngsters in their turn. "Good practice for life," Uncle said. "Hard knocks, that's all the world's about!" But maybe Uncle had never met anyone like Tom, who was kind to other people and seemed to expect nothing more than kindness in return.