Quotes About Compassion

Let me be big in little things...

Service isn't a big thing. It's a million little things.

Adoption is when a child grew in its mommy's heart instead of her tummy.

Oh, my dear sir... Bless your heart and hide...

Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering — this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutory day-time advice for everyone. But at three o'clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn't work — in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

No woman wants an abortion. A woman who has one is almost always in a desperate situation, and her decision is not made lightly. She deserves Christian compassion, not... self-righteous scorn...

If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make a world shine.

When life gives you lemons, please, just don't squirt them in other people's eyes.

Everyone is trying to believe in something these days, and they forget that miracles happen every day when we truly acknowledge the humanity of another or just have a simple, pure conversation with someone else.

I've told you before. You shouldn't judge people based on appearances and your preconceptions.

Anyone who grows up around farm animals cannot side with a wolf in the long clash of things. But you can be against tormenting any creature.

It came to me more as a whisper of suggestion than the fundamental adage that it is - if this is not biblical, I shall always believe it should be - that all of us need someone who loves us enough to forgive us despite the history.

Tako se teško živi, tako se kratko živi, pa još dobra polovica tog teškog i kratkog života nam pro?e u mržnji i nesporazumima. Oh, ugasite mržnju! Ljudi su nama potrebni i nikako se, nikako ne može živjeti bez opraštanja.

Ono sto je najljepše na iskrenoj i dubokoj ljubavi, to je da u odnosu prema onome koga volimo ni jedna naša mana ne dolazi do izraza. Mnogo šta što je zlo u nama is?ezava, a ono što je dobro ustostru?i se.

?ini mi se kad bi ljudi znali, koliko je za mene napor bio živeti, oprostili bi mi lakše sve zlo što sam po?inio i sve dobro što sam propustio da u?inim, i još bi im ostalo malo ose?anja da me požale.

every woman has some reason to weep and weeping is sweetest when it is for another's sorrow.

Sigurno je da mnogi ljudi cijelog svog zivota i ne slute kako nesrecnih ljudi ima na svijetu.

Teško je ploviti bez krivudanja sa tolikim svetom na brodu i za spas svih treba ponekad nešto od tereta i u more baciti.

Alles im Leben ist eine Brücke – ein Wort, ein Lächeln, das wir dem anderen schenken.

Od straha su ljudi zli i surovi i podli, od straha su darežljivi, ?ak i dobri. Sve se niži višega boji. A onaj koji nema nikog da se boji taj preza pred strahom kog mu ra?a njegova bolesna mašta, jer strah je kao zaraza koja ispunjava sve mozgove. Kad bih mogao zaviriti u nutrinu ovom ?ovjeku kom je odre?eno da me mu?i, mislim da bih našao malu, bijednu dušu, izmu?enu obzirima i strahom pred propustima i ukorima. Žao mi ga je i ta me samilost boli.

Volite ljude, ?esto im pomozite i uvijek ih požalite, jer su nam svi ljudi potrebni.

Bir H?ristiyana mezarl?kta bir kabri nas?l çok görebilirsin? dedi. Hem de onun günahlar?n? affetmeyecekmiÅŸim? Hayat?nda mutsuz oluÅŸu yetmiyor mu ki?.. Yukarda, hepimizin günahlar?n?n hesab?n? soracak olan, vars?n onun da günahlar?n?n hesab?n? sorsun!..

Nisu svi ljudi tako r?avi kao što to r?av ?ovek misli.

Ne treba se bojati ljudi. - Pa ja se i ne bojim ljudi, nego onog što je neljudsko u njma." ? Ivo Andri?