Quotes About Compassion

My dear grandmother (who was a psychic in her own right and very well known in Kansas City, Missouri) used to say if you find someone who doesn't like animals, children, or music . . . run.

The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story.

But as long as he kept on caring, nothing could touch the freedom of his inner thoughts.

I thought I could save a very worthwhile person.

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

If I'm not for myself, who will be for me? And if not now, when? But if I'm only for myself, who am I?

The victim's response to the trauma of a sexual assault shall not be used in any way to measure credibility." —

End Violence Against Women International, the police training organization, has suggested that the most important factor in talking with victims is the engagement of the investigators. "What is absolutely clear is that an officer's competence and compassion are far more important than gender in determining their effectiveness at interviewing sexual assault victims," the organization emphasizes.

People say, 'Why do you work sex crimes and kid crimes?' I don't enjoy it. But someone's got to do it. And someone's got to do it well.

The Chinese philosopher Mencius believed that man is innately good. He argued that anyone who saw a child falling into a well would immediately feel shock and alarm, and that this impulse, this universal capacity for commiseration, was proof positive that man is inherently good.

We lived among people whose poverty could be seen in the length of their faces, in their tired speech and in the heaviness of their eyes.

this world you live in...might feel unkind, but the world is bigger than this. It won't be like this forever. If you can just survive this, someday I promise you will be appreciated. And happy. And loved.

you can't be ruined by things that others do to you but only by what you do to others.

The strongest bonds are of the heart.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not it takes a very strong person to forgive.

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

If you have been betrayed or wounded by someone you brought too close, please forgive them. They really were a blessing. You will only be better when you cease to be bitter!

Because we have offered no provision for sons and daughters who fall, many of our Adams and our Eves are hiding in the bushes.

He wants you to offer hope to those being crushed and struggling to understand.

Have you ever been guilty of having a condescending attitude about another person's weakness? How can we dare to think we can access the soul-cleansing blood that delivers us from the cesspool of our secret sins, and then look down on another member of Christ's Body in disdain?

Can the wounded heal the hurting?

Real wealth is affirmation, affection, humanity, and brotherhood.

Until you take a walk through in their shoes, you'll have no idea where and how much they hurt in their journey.

has a less than 1-in-20 shot at making it to the top. The idea that so many children are born into poverty in the wealthiest nation on Earth is heartbreaking enough. But the idea that a child may never be able to escape that poverty because she lacks a decent education or health care, or a community that views her future as their own, that should offend all of us and it should compel us to