Quotes About Compassion

Upon this, Bernard went and sold all that he had. Now he was very rich, and with great joy he distributed his wealth to widows, to orphans, to prisoners, to monasteries, to hospitals, and to pilgrims, in all which St Francis assisted him with prudence and fidelity.

Go into all the world and preach the gospel, and if necessary, use words.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

No man is born unto himself alone;Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

Hath any wronged thee, be bravely revenged. Slight it, and the work?s begun; forgive it, and ?tis finished. He is below himself that is not above an injury.

The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

do we not love each other enough, or do we love ourselves too much!

When we proclaim that someone is subhuman, we not only remove for them the possibility of change and repentance, we also remove from them moral responsibility.

We are supposed to do our fallible, failing best to perceive the other bad people as kin.

For a Christian, the most essential thing God does in time, in all of human history, is to be that man in the crowd; a man under arrest, and on his way to our common catastrophe.

Quién los jueces con pasión, sin ser ungüento hace humanos, pues untándoles las manos les ablanda el corazón?

Every time we make assumptions about what other people feel, do or think, we imprison them and us in a separate reality. When we believe in those assumptions and act accordingly, this separate reality becomes an existential torture chamber for them and ultimately for us. All the terror and pain that we experience or see in the world is the result of our assumptions. Assumptions are the greatest crime in human consciousness. Hence let's start to create an assumption-free world.

Acceptance means including everything and everyone. It is acknowledging what is and allowing it to be part of the wholeness to which it legitimately belongs no matter what it is. It is devoid of any judgement, and yet it also includes the judgement. It can be strategically located at the heart level, yet this heart level includes all other levels.

Acceptance may be seen as the first step in healing, though when there is true acceptance, this is not really a step. Acceptance is there whether you step forward, backward or remain where you are. Also when acceptance is total there is no need of any further step. Acceptance will suffice.

We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

Being unhappy alone isn't all that much fun, but what's even tougher is playing one's part without forgetting one's lines, coping with other people's compassion, their comments, being there with the right line when they give the cue.

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find it out.

I'm feeling generous today. You get to live.

You can't warm a stone by slapping it, Sally. You'd only bruise yourself. A stone is neither cruel nor tender. You've married a man of stone, Sally.

People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.

there is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.

Sometimes you have to do things that you don't want to do for the sake of other people. In the end, you are the choices that you make.