Quotes About Compassion

A woman's pity often opens the door to love.

When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep.

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

That man is a Christian whose soul has learned to love; and he who has not learned to love, does not know the alphabet of Christianity.

Where human life needs most sympathy, where usually it is the most barren, there it is that Christ is more likely to be found than anywhere else.

A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.

Many professed Christians are like railroad station houses, and the wicked are whirled indifferently by them, and go on their way forgetting them; whereas they should be like switches, taking sinners off one track, and putting them on to another.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. If you are angry with a man, or hate him, it is not hard to go to him and stab him with words; but so to love a man that you cannot bear to see the stain of sin upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words--that is friendship. But few have such friends. Our enemies usually teach us what we are, at the point of the sword.

Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

Every well-doer on the face of the earth is my blood relation through Jesus Christ.

Families are the best place to learn and practice mutual tolerance and acceptance.

charity begins in your own family.

most of the people need not be expect a sympathy but they want to accept their empathy ----- gentle

People hurt others all the time, even when they loved them. Especially when they loved them. It was usually because they were in pain themselves.

peace on a world scale is determined by each of us creating peace in our own hearts and minds first, and doing our best to live in harmony with the people and other living creatures around us. When we can each do that, I believe together we will then become a force powerful enough to create positive change on a scale never before conceived.

Mothers seem to have an infinite capacity to withstand hurt from their children. All they see is their pain and I think they feel responsible for it, as if it is their fault that the child in question is feeling so bad and acting so selfishly -- and thus the very least they can do is take it.

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.

Nicola had to move closer to Marcus, had to take his hands in hers and hold them over her heart as though she could give hers up for his if it meant she could take away all of the pain he'd had to deal with at such a terribly young age.

I'll never know how to love you the right way if I don't also know how to be your friend, Mia.

Because real love doesn't have anything to do with perfection. Real love is what happens when everything isn't perfect…and you love each other anyway.

But now I can see that perfect simply means learning how to forgive and to accept and to do everything you can to love with your whole heart.