Quotes About Compassion

Every human being must find his own way to cope with such severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

They'll want him to be mad, of course,' Laszlo mused, not hearing me. 'The doctors here, the newspapers, the judges; they'd like to think that only a madman would shoot a five-year-old girl in the head. It creates certain … difficulties, if we are forced to accept that our society can produce sane men who commit such acts.

You don't have to change to love me; loving me will change you.

When we sin, we do not infuriate God, our Lover. We only hurt Him. We grieve Him!

CHRIST KNEW IT WAS IMPORTANT TO SERVE, EVEN IF DOING SO INTERRUPTED HIS PERSONAL AGENDA.

When asked, "Who is my neighbor?" Jesus in effect does not say, "Let me give you three Hebrew roots on the word neighbor." What he does say is, "A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho. . . .

Do you think the people you preach to have a feeling of love?" the young man asked. "Well, I'm not talking about weak love," King explained. "I'm talking about love with justice. Weak love can be sentimental and empty. I'm talking about the love that is strong, so that you love your fellow men enough to lead them to justice.

to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.

If we treat him like an enemy, that's all he'll ever be.

And, much more than hate, it is pity which is the opposite, the doom, of love. For to love or hate truly, you need to be equals, or at least close in strength. But pity is a thing which flows from the strong to the weak.

For surely, if this was anything, it was the power of true love. The power to bring life and hope where none had been before.

The wound I had seen in my stepmother's eyes.

Mind? my stepmother cried. "You are a lifesaver, Justine, just as your sister is. Part of me wants to ask how you know what to do, the other informs the rest that a gift is best accepted with thanks and not inquired after too closely. So I will simply say thank you, I think. Will all my heart.

Love was all around me. I simply had to find a way to make it thrive.

It made me angry that people could simply kill other people, take what they wanted, and ignore the cries of the sick and hungry. The world wasn't like that— or it shouldn't be like that—even though I hadn't seen enough of the world to know what it was really like.

The sound of communal prayer—its growling honesty, its rhythm as relentless and essential as heartbeats—moves me with its direction and makes me believe that distance can be overcome. It is the only thing that offers me hope that where borders and wars and revolutions divide and scatter us, something singular and true unites us. It tames this English soil.

Amina has boundless empathy for everyone but her husband, it seems. How is it that disappointment arrives as soon as what you have desired for so long steps over the threshold? It's like finding the end of your wedding train dragging behind in the mud.

Friendships were tested in times of crisis, and she didn't want to be one of those people who out of exaggerated caution and perhaps even cowardice avoided friends who were having a hard time.

it is rare, though, that a great wrong is committed by one people against another without some among the perpetrators protesting the deed.

How can you humans actually believe yourselves superior to any truly sentient being? Look at you - self-styled demigods, mired in your own filthy social excrement, possessed of vomitous morals. You kill each other with unnatural impunity, preying upon the weal and helpless... not from necessity, but for gain. Name one other species that maims and destroys to gain glittering trinkets that will not fill one's belly.

You ain't never gonna feel nothin' other people ain't been through a million times before.

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

Aquí estamos para ayudarnos unos a otros; lo que pasa es que no se puede, porque no queremos. Ésa es la vida.