Quotes About Compassion

Peter finds the lost, the left-behind, the abused. Is that not why you are here? Did Peter not save you?

But he was sick of this charade. Sick of watching people lose a little more of their humanity each day, and sick to death of seeing people tortured in the name of God. What had happened to these people?

But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.

How much blood will it take to make them stop? How many more children must die?

Peter finds the lost, the left-behind, the abused.

Does mankind truly hate itself? How can one surmount such irreverence?

There will never be an end to suffering. You do what you can, only what you can. Peace comes from knowing you helped those that you could.

Silly man, no one is asking you to denounce anyone. Only to open your heart. To invite them all into your house.

She could sense them all around her now, their pain, their hunger, their need,

If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal -- cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge -- so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses -- loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.

I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.

What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed.

Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first.

Jesus said the standard was seventy times seven. I read somewhere that Dietrich Bonhoeffer explained it this way: "As long as you are counting, you haven't forgiven once." In

Don't pray for us. Pray with us.

I've heard you say that before: 'I seek the brethren.' But what then?" "You listen.

One of the students was a doctor, a German woman, and I used to watch her scouring garbage pails as though she were preparing a room for surgery.

As long as we see any person as an enemy—whether Communist, Muslim or terrorist—then the love of God cannot flow through us to reach them.

You can get in anywhere if you go to serve.

Christians need a new filling of the Holy Spirit to love those who disagree with them. And the greatest expression of love is to share with them the most precious thing a Christian has, which is the good news of the salvation of Jesus Christ.

Don't bring Hollywood; bring Christ. Don't bring power. Don't bring just your money. Bring love. Bring the kingdom.

through prayer we can reach into the future and with loving hands touch those beyond our reach.

That as for the miseries and sins he heard of daily in the world, he was so far from wondering at them, that, on the contrary, he was surprised that there were not more, considering the malice sinners were capable of; that for his part he prayed for them; but knowing that GOD could remedy the mischiefs they did when He pleased, he gave himself no farther trouble.

I AM in pain to see you suffer so long; what gives me some ease, and sweetens the feeling I have of your griefs, is that they are proofs of GOD's love towards you: see them in that view, and you will bear them more easily.