Quotes About Compassion

I'm mad at you because I love you, not because I want you dead.

If you had known this: I love mercy, 45 not sacrifice, you would not have condemned those on whom is no blame.

Which is better, that it should be said to the paralytic, Your sins are forgiven you, or that it should be said 20 to him, Arise, and take your bed, and walk?

And if you inquire for the good of your brethren only, what more have 21 ye done than others? is not this the conduct of the publicans also?

13 Judge not, that you be not judged: condemn not, that you be not condemned: 14 forgive, and it shall be forgiven you: release, and you shall be released: give, that you may be given unto; with good measure, abundant, full, they shall thrust into your 15 bosoms.

The girl wondered: These policemen... didn't they have families, too? Didn't they have children? Children they went home to? How could they treat children this way? Were they told to do so, or did they act this way naturally? Were they in fact machines, not human beings? She looked closely at them. They seemed of flesh and bone. They were men. She couldn't understand.

I took his hand and pressed it hard. I could not bear to look at him any longer, so I closed my eyes and put his hand against my cheek. I cried with him. I felt his fingers grow wet with my tears, but I kept his hand there.

packed here in inhuman conditions by the government of the Vichy police, by order of the Nazi occupant. May those who tried to save them be thanked. Passerby, never forget!

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

All he could think of was how all people require attention. All people require respect. All people require acknowledgment. All people require love.

Since time immemorial wise people have been saying that all comparisons are odious. When we compare, we set up a winner-loser dynamic. If my crisis is greater than yours, then yours is belittled and insignificant. I say that's nonsense. Each crisis has its own power, its own unique reality.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring." Doc

True democracy focuses on the public interest; it defends the common good and protects its citizens - especially the weak and the vulnerable. We maintain that no democracy can survive without the powerful notions of compassion and public service. The level of wealth inequality in this country has gotten so far out of hand, the quantity of compassion so diminished, that the very future of democracy is at stake." ? & Cornel West

It occurs to me that maybe a man can love his son only as much as he loves the mother.

It takes being together to another level when you go to bed for a purpose larger than your own feelings.

You can never know another person's mind; this is one thing I have learned.

However much it hurts you, remember that I am the one it happened to. I am the one who was pregnant. I'm the one who isn't pregnant anymore. Whatever you feel, think about what I must feel. Just like you can say I don't know what it is like to be in prison, you don't know what it's like to go to a clinic and sign your name in a book.

didn't want her to stand up for what was right, I wanted my mother to stand up for me.

You don't know what you need until somebody gives it to you exactly the way you need it gave.

my mentor cautioned me that I should always write about "people and their problems, not problems and their people.

knew that things like this happen to people, but by people, I didn't mean us.

Who is to blame, then, when everyone is innocent? And what is the value of blame at all?

sometime that only thing that can cure a man is the inside of the woman, the right woman who does things the right way.

The vast generosity of women is a mysterious tunnel, and nobody knows where it leads.