Quotes About Compassion

There's something to be said for visibility, something about being easier to love.

THERE IS NOTHING lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.

do with being a doormat or a second-class citizen, or even a slave of any kind. Instead, it seems to point to what most of Jesus' teaching points to: be kind to one another, love one another, be of service to one another, and treat others the way you want to be treated.

I would be a Christian, except for all the Christians.

I believe this son represents those of us who are "Pharisees" in our hearts. We keep all the rules, we do everything required of us, and we are faithful and loyal believers. But we lack what our Father cares about most: love, compassion, mercy, grace, and forgiveness.

To those of us who are alienated from home, marginalized, cast out, or lost, God is crying out: I am your Father! I will do anything to buy you back, restore you to my family. Or as Jeremiah 29:11 says, "to give you hope and a future.

Go out into the world and do well; but more importantly—go out into the world and do good.

When we live in grace, it becomes clear that every life is precious and deserving of our protection, our love, and our relationship.

It's clear that love is the container in which broken hearts are rebuilt.

When we open our hearts to each other we allow grace to enter. It is as simple as that. And suffering--events that break open the heart--can become the refiner's fire that leaves us fully open to the truth about love and compassion.

Hatred and anger are not the opposites of love, Tess. They are backsides of the same playing cards. It is easier to flip hostile feelings over and find the love and forgiveness that have been hidden there all along, aching to be found, than it is to produce new feelings.

There is a language every sister knows, a language tender beyond words and rarely spoken. It runs like a string between two hearts, and we only pluck that string in times of trouble. This night [...] we speak as sisters.

At the start of it he'd felt only a sudden overpowering wish to make her happy. To see her smile again.

Disaster calls us to action. They call us to levels of compassion and courage we did know we could reach. They smash us with sorrow and lift us with determination and moral resolved, the way a wave both makes and lifts us in the same wild movement. Disaster transforms sorrowful love into a force strong enough to change the trajectory of history….Dear Mary Oliver, do you think this might now be how we do the work of loving a weary, reeling world? And don't we have to try?

Él no debe sentirse obligado a brindarme más amabilidad de la que desea. Si no la ofrece por su propia voluntad, no significa nada.

You sure did break that boy's heart." "I know," Krissa agreed. She didn't mind Jewel saying that. At least someone in this house had been on his side. "But I'm here now." "That's true," Jewel conceded, and the two women exchanged a look. We will help him through this.

Wags couldn't make it through the night without creeping over to Tory and whimpering that she had to use the ladies' room. So Tory would have to get out of bed, take her outside and down the stairs, and stand there in the middle of a chilly spring night, waiting for Wags to attend to herself.

If tears proved him still human, a touch would prove him not.

Love is love. It is God-given, and a sacrament. It is not for any man to judge.

If you believe that someone you know is behaving in a way that may be harmful to himself or others, you have an obligation to pray for him.

For while all forgiveness is the balm of our compassionate Mother, self-forgiveness is needed most of all. Embrace

Dear God, please help me find the strength and love within myself to forgive others so that I may move forward on my path in your service.

FINDING FORGIVENESS : THE EXTRAORDINARY LEGACY OF AMY BIEHL AND HER FAMILY

There is no problem for which the instruction to love more is not the solution.