Quotes About Compassion

Be the light at the end of the tunnel. Be the reason for the end of someone else's struggle.

Each of us can only do the best we can for as many as we can and that will never be good enough for those of us who care!

Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.

Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.

You can pray for someone even if you dont think God exists.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

You don't have to say anything in particular or do anything in particular to be helpful to people. You become a bodhisattva by wishing for your own happiness as well as the happiness of others, and by opening to your own experience in a loving way. When you love yourself and are kind enough to yourself to be who you really are, you're showing others what they need to do in order to be free.

When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love." Rebecca - age 8

Heartache, to her, coursed through everything--which was as it should be, since people needed it to make them kind.

A friend understands what you're going through enough and can help you through it. A best friend Understands what you're going through too much and ,frankly, it's giving them a headache.

The truth was that sometimes saving people wasn't simple, sometimes saviors weren't who you expected them to be, all people don't get saved, and not everyone deserved to be saved.

people wasn't simple, sometimes saviors weren't who you expected them to be, all people don't get saved, and not everyone deserved to be saved.

Liebet eure Feinde, tut denen Gutes, die euch hassen‹, hat er gesagt. Und: ›Segnet die, die euch verfluchen,

Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the differences between us, and this is our enslavement.

There are actually real, flesh-and-blood people who have been harmed by powerful evildoers in the church. Who will show mercy to them? Who will show them the compassion they so desperately need? Will it be the Christians who are so busy "not judging" the ones who have committed egregious harm?

Walk and speak in truth and love. Live with love and empathy especially for the oppressed and struggling, with a willingness to listen with a compassionate heart. Speak truth, gently to the harmed and boldly to the ones who harm. This is surely the way of our Lord Jesus. He had no concerns about his speech being "positive" or "negative." He spoke the truth with love.

Repeatedly and consistently, the Bible calls us to stand with the weak and oppressed, to speak out for those who for one reason or another can't speak for themselves. God is a God of justice and mercy, and He calls us to walk in justice and mercy with Him, to have His heart, His compassion and empathy.

Be kind to your shadow.

No child, through her own will, can pull a mother out of her suffering, and as an adult, I have been very busy.

If there are two things you must be by the time you hit your 40s - be kind and be educated. If you don't have time for both - be kind!

When there is a calamity, don't think about the party, think beyond the party.

I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.

Love is kind, right? It's not about calling someone out on every little thing you feel.

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.