Quotes About Compassion

The Savior was no ivory-tower observer, no behind-the-lines captain... The Savior was a participant, a player, who not only understood our plight intellectually, but who felt our wounds because they became his wounds.

A godly sorrow involves joining with the Savior in the sorrow of Gethsemane. It is a sorrow that fosters a new heart and a new spirit.

The first step toward being loved is learning to love what you see when you look in the mirror.

Compassion for others is a mark of wisdom.

Real hunger is when one man regards another man as something to eat.

I smile and I think that one human being must always be discovering another - through love. And that this is the most important thing on earth, and the most lasting.

Most of our sins toward those who are close to us are due to the fact that we become insulted and hurt over nothing.

Aren't you in pain, Mother?' she wanted to call out. 'Mother, I'm suffering too.

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Anyone who takes the time to be kind is beautiful.

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

In fact, knowing she'd been through hardship filled me with sweet tenderness.

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

Cecilia Kapua Lindo sums up this sentiment in "Grateful to All Beings": From time to time I too am misled by the myth That exalts the independent, self-made man. Upon hearing the voice of the Enlightened One, Any air of self-importance Is deflated, like an empty balloon. And I become aware that my existence depends Upon the many lives that are slain for me Each time I sit down to eat my meal.

From time to time we complain about all kinds of things about other people, and we feel that we are being deceived. My father told us that these others are not living outside ourselves.

Love tends to simplify the most complex and difficult of situations.

Perhaps it wasn't so important to understand after all. Perhaps what was most important was to care.

Mingling with people, hurting them, getting hurt by them…that's how you learn about others…and about yourself. If you don't you'll never be able to care about anyone but yourself.

Every war invariably results in terrible tragedies, immense waste and sinful destruction. All wars, no matter how big or small, how nearby or far away, diminish OUR humanity to a barbaric level.

The strong are always kind.

I don't know the sutras. I can't console Yamada's spirit by chanting sutras. But I've been thinking a lot, and here's what I think. I've thought about how much Yamada didn't want to die. . . . No, to tell the truth, I've thought about how much he didn't want to be killed. There's no denying that Yamada was killed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson explains, "It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Our behavior toward others is often a reflection of our treatment of ourselves.

Modern sovereignty, whether expressed through killing in battle or the torture of suspects, brings together the desire to build up and the desire to destroy, to let Aid Agencies offer charity (in its original meaning of "love") while the military offers death. The two are intrinsically connected.