Quotes About Compassion

And yet poor Babcock liked him, and remembered that even if he was sometimes perplexing and painful, this was not a reason for giving him up.

Mamie made them easy as he couldn't have begun to do, and yet it could only have cost her more than he should ever have had to spend.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

The only thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give is enough love.

Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

You are always laughing at the wrong moment; you are considered cruel and heartless when in reality you are only tough and durable. But if you would laugh when others laugh and weep when they weep then you must be prepared to die as they die and live as they live.

It's like saying to a drowning man: What a pity, what a pity! If you had only let me teach you how to swim! Everybody wants to right the world, nobody wants help his neighbor. They want to make a man of you without taking your body into consideration. It's all cockeyed.

There are no facts--there is only the fact that man, every man everywhere in the world is on his way to ordination. Some men take the long route and some men take the short route. Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

The one thing that we can never get enough of is Love and the one thing we never give enough is Love.

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Mijn vrienden daarentegen verschansten zich nog steviger in de kleine loopgraaf van het begrijpen, een loopgraaf die ze voor zichzelf gegraven hadden. Ze stierven heel comfortabel in hun bedje van begrijpen, werden nuttige leden van de maatschappij. Ik had medelijden met hen, en al heel gauw liet ik ze, zonder de minste spijt, één voor één in de steek.

Jesus made a number of explicit statements, injunctions really. All to the effect that one was to take no thought but to respond immediately to any appeal for aid. And to respond in large measure. To give your cloak as well as your coat, to walk two miles and not one. And as we know well, with these injunctions went another, more important one—to return good for evil. "Resist not evil!

everybody becomes a healer the moment he forgets about himself.

You have to get beyond pity, in order to feel from the very roots of your being. One can't make a new heaven and earth with facts. There are no facts. There is only the fact man, every man, everywhere in the world is on his way to ordination. Some men take the long route, and some take the short route. Every man is working out his destiny in his own way, and nobody can be of help except by being kind, generous and patient.

But if you would laugh when others laugh and weep when they weep then you must be prepared to die as they die and live as they live

There are people to whom you feel immediately attracted, not because you like them, but because you detest them. You detest them so heartily that your curiosity is aroused; you come back to them again and again to study them, to arouse in yourself a feeling of compassion which is really absent. You do things for them, not because you feel any sympathy for them, but because their suffering is incomprehensible to you.

Maybe the Negro will always be our friend, no matter what we do to him. I remember a conversation with a colored maid in the home of one of my friends. She said, "I do think we have more love for you than you have for us." "You don't hate us ever?" I asked. "Lord no!" she answered, "we just feel sorry for you. You has all the power and the wealth but you ain't happy.

Had I my choice of all things that might tend to my present felicity, I would pitch upon this, to have my heart possessed with the greatest kindness and affection towards all men in the world. I

what might have been had this family chosen to model forgiveness for their daughters rather than bitterness.

Ask God to make you like Christ so that, even when you are being persecuted, you can pray, "Father, forgive them.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Only that which is truly given, answered the bell-like voice. Only that good which is done for the love of doing it. Only those plans in which the welfare of others is the master thought. Only those labors in which the sacrifice is greater than the reward. Only those gifts in which the giver forgets himself.

Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.

The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend.