Quotes About Compassion

Reinhold Niebuhr

Someone at work said to me this morning, "Where is God in all this?" I didn't rise to the bait. I can never understand why people ask that question. The real question for the bystanders of tragedy is "Where are WE in all this?" I've always tried to come up with answers to that challenge. I don't know if I can at the moment. Pray for me.

Someone at work said to me this morning, "Where is God in all this?" I didn't rise to the bait. I can never understand why people ask that question. The real question for the bystanders of tragedy is "Where are WE in all this?

there is no glory in punishing

Our philanthropy prefers to. recognize the signs of a benevolence. toward sickness where there is only a. condemnation of idleness

Es preciso que la justicia criminal, en lugar de vengarse, castigue al fin. Esta necesidad de un castigo sin suplicio se formula en primer lugar como un grito del corazón o de la naturaleza indignada: en el peor de los asesinos, hay una cosa al menos que debe respetarse cuando se castiga: su "humanidad".

You can't heal until you've forgiven. Forgiveness is not the last step of a process; it's the first step that begins a process.

In the seminar room, Helen had lit the chalice and given a short speech about not focusing on one kind of minister—a man, a woman, a person of color, or someone within a certain age range—when the person who most needed to hear this slipped in.

The best listening, Elsa said, was silence dilated by love and attention.

It occurred to him that strength was quite different from toughness and that being vulnerable wasn't quite the same as being weak.

Miss Thorne said no more. Poor boy, she thought, away from his loving home and now dumped with an irritable old man. Tom

It's always easier,' he offered at last, 'when you feel these things yourself; seeing them in other people reveals just how ugly they are.

Power such as mine is only granted for one reason - to protect those with less, against yours. Power such as yours? Sarillorn, if the power that you wield is too great a responsibility, I will take it from you; you may then have peace, knowing that there is nothing at all that you can do.

It's so easy to refuse to help others when you feel they were irresponsible. It's tempting to pass judgment and think you've done better for yourself on your own. But don't be so arrogant to think you got where you are by your own actions. Contrary to popular wisdom, you can't pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. Whether you acknowledge it or not, you had help.

My wife, although still with her arm in a sling, was so much better this morning that she took care of me. I was amused to hear her ask for some white ointment which she put over her brows to conceal the fact that her eyebrows had been singed. Her returning vanity was a good sign.

Sometimes you have to think like a hero just to behave like a decent human being.

Imagine living your life without judging others. You can easily forgive others and let go of any judgments that you have. You don't have the need to be right, and you don't need to make anyone else wrong. You respect yourself and everyone else, and they respect you in return.

We must forgive those we feel have wronged us, not because they deserve to be forgiven but because we love ourselves so much we don't want to keep paying for the injustice...when someone can touch a wound and it no longer hurts you then you know you have truly forgiven.

You may even tell me, Miguel, what you are saying is hurting me. But it is not what I am saying that is hurting you; it is that you have wounds that I touch by what I have said.

You don't need to blame your parents for teaching you to be like them. What else could they teach you but what they know? They did the best they could, and if they abused you, it was due to their own domestication, their own fears, their own beliefs. They had no control over the programming they received, so they couldn't have behaved any differently.

You must forgive those who hurt you, even if whatever they did to you is unforgivable in your mind. You will forgive them not because they deserve to be forgiven, but because you don't want to suffer and hurt yourself every time you

People who love us do black magic on us, but they don't know what they do. That is why we must forgive them; they don't know what they do.

Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them. If we try to change them, this means we don't really like them.

Wherever I go, whomever I meet, I see myself in their eyes, because I am a part of everything, because I love.