Quotes About Compassion

If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.

Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you're not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else.

A beautiful thing happens when we start paying attention to each other. It is by participating more in your relationship that you breathe life into it.

How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.

Embrace your spirituality but don't turn your back on your humanity."

Search for contentment in each person you meet.

Sometimes silence can be the strongest and most compassionate answer."

Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

To love others you must know how much you are loved.

Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury.

But the final act of the Gospel is death: death at the healed hands of the lepers, called for by the mouths of the ones whose tongues were loosed, watched by the eyes opened by His touch. And if we intend to follow His steps, live according to the Gospel, and show love to sinners, we must be willing to die by their hands. And you will. You will.

I dream of a simple church marked by the simple proposition that we are "otherly.

If I could, I would tell everyone that to spend our lives on the poor is no burden. Neither is it noble. Rather, it is a great privilege, and sometimes a great joy. After all, that is where Jesus is.

No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged with out any effort on your part. It's like having a tiny apartment and somebody moves in with you. But instead of becoming cramped and crowded, the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you had until your friend moved in with you.

Brittany Gomez, only six months old, was left blind and retarded after being brutally shaken by her baby-sitter, who drew only probation and ninety days in a halfway house after pleading to felony child abuse. Then Brittany died, the case was ruled a homicide, and murder charges were filed. The baby-sitter again pled guilty in exchange for no prison time. She killed a child and never spent a day behind bars.

Before he even arrived, he sent each top police official a framed, hand-embroidered motto: Police Unto Others As You Would Have Them Police Unto You. What did that mean? Don't arrest anybody because you wouldn't like to be arrested?

To a little girl I never met who caused so many to reflect within themselves; and to those cops and prosecutors across the country who do the right thing: day in, day out.

The secret to teamwork is an outward mindset.

About 5 percent of love is romantic. The other 95 percent is something else. It's caring for another more than yourself. It's empathy and compassion and sacrifice. It's setting aside your own concerns to lift someone else.

Aidan and Kai were almost the same height, but frequently Kai seemed smaller, even less mature. Aidan couldn't completely explain it. Certainly, Kai had suffered far less in his life. Aidan wondered how Kai would have coped with the horrors he himself had endured, and allowed himself a cold smile at the thought of the bookish Kai chained in a screwship's dark hold, squirming in his own shit.

Saving someone's life is a wonderful feeling. Try it. You feel like, if you don't mind a TV reference, a big damn hero.

Does it really matter what you feel when you do something? Does it somehow make a difference if you're sorry when you go blasting your way over someone's life like a locomotive over a papier-mâché doll

It isn't that they're ungrateful." "I know. It's just that no one wants to be the one being rescued, we all want to do the rescuing." She nodded. "And this job is all about making everyone else do the rescuing. Which is why you're here right now." "You want me to rescue someone?

We are in this stew together. We are caught in the same traps. With a small twist of fate, I could be sitting across from you, and you could be sitting across from me—both of us in opposite roles. Your problems are a special opportunity for you to learn and for me to learn. We are not cut from different cloths, but rather from the same cloth.