Quotes About Compassion

And the true heart of us, our human kind, is that we're connected, at our best, by purities of love found in no other creature.

Justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them

The worst things that people do to us always make us feel ashamed. The worst things that people do always strike at the part of us that wants to love the world. And a tiny part of the shame we feel, when we're violated, is shame at being human.

because justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied, even those who offend us and must be punished by us. You can see, by what we have done with these two boys, that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.' I knew those words by heart. I

Some people always manage to make us feel sorry for them, no matter how stupid and angry we feel about it after.

You should let Jesus in your heart.' 'Jesus is in every heart, brother.' 'Are you serious?' 'Of course. I love that guy. Who doesn't?' 'A lot of people don't,' he laughed. 'Some people hate Jesus.' 'No. Brilliant mind, loving heart, significant penance: Jesus was the real deal. They might know Christians they don't like, but nobody hates Jesus.

There is no act of faith more beautiful than the generosity of the very poor

If we do not suffer with our pain, then we have not learned about anything but ourselves.

This is why killing and stealing are wrong—not because a book tells us they are wrong, or a law tells us they are wrong, or a spiritual guide tells us they are wrong, but because if everyone did them we would not move toward the ultimate complexity that is God, with the rest of the universe.

He was the little mouse that I'd trained and fed with crumbs in my prison cell; the mouse that was crucified.

You can respect a man's rights or opinions without knowing the man at all. But you can only respect the man himself when you find something in him that's worthy of the word.

You can't serve God with a gun.

It doesn't always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world. And the only way to know that truth is to share it, from heart to heart

The statement I do not hate you is a poem of passionate love.

BaÅŸkalar?n?n kalplerinde bulduÄŸun gerçeÄŸi sev. Ve kendi kalbindeki sevginin sesine daima kulak ver.

A heart filled with greed, pride or hateful feelings is not free.

Cruelty is a kind of cowardice. Cruel laughter is the way cowards cry when they're not alone, and causing pain is how they grieve.

Love, like respect, isn't something you get; it's something you give.

And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.

Love, like respect, isn't something you get; it's something you give.

Will you help us, Lin? We feel very sorry for that bear. Love is a special thing in the world. When two men have so much love in their hearts, even so it is for a bear, it must be protected, isn't it?

love makes men big, and hate makes them small.

every time I entered the slum I felt the urge to let go and surrender to a simpler, poorer life, that was yet richer in respect, and love, and a vicinal connectedness to the surrounding sea of human hearts.

Guilt is the hilt of the knife that we use on ourselves, and love is often the blade; but it's worry that keeps the knife sharp, and worry that gets most of us, in the end.