Quotes About Compassion

it's easy to point fingers from a position of comfort, and nothing he or Jesus says will change that.

And so, when she fell ill, it seemed a natural thing to me." "But I don't understand. I thought you said she was pretending.

I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I don't think I'll ever come to terms with people being unnecessarily nasty, but I can take it if someone doesn't like my music - I'm not everyone's cup of tea.

Does the surgeon spare the cancer because he must cut to remove it? We are cruel. Of course we are cruel.

Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles

Looking at the folded cranes which Sadako made innocently on her bed, I almost cried my heart out thinking of Sadako's feelings.

Sadako! Listen! Can you hear your friends' strong voices for peace? As the mother of a child who passed away when she was only twelve and a half years old, I'd like to appeal to mothers not only in Japan but all over the world that I don't want such a horrible thing to happen again. So many children are looking for peace.

She knew we were poor though she didn't say anything. She used to say, "Mom, I'm not a good daughter because you have to spend so much money for my sickness…" I'm sure sure she had many things she wanted to buy as a teenager such as new clothes, but she didn't say anything to me and kept it to herself because she knew we were poor.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.

And that's when I realized that there's really two ways people cry. You cry when you're sorry for yourself, and then you cry when you are really sad. The tears you cry for yourself? Those are kid tears. You're crying because you want somebody to help you or pick you up. Your mom, your dad, the old lady next door... anyone.

Love everybody like you love yourself, and you've got to be full up with you to love yourself properly first.

And God said love me, love them, and love it, and don't forget to love yourself.

Some people collect stamps or beer mats; Mum collected waifs and strays, cats, dogs, frogs, people, and as she believed, a whole host of "little people." Had she been confronted that night with a lion,she'd have made the same comment "The poor thing.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

Before we blame, we should first see if we can't excuse.

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.

It is just as easy to be polite as to be rude, and men are served better for love than for fear.