Quotes About Compassion

I love animals. I couldn't eat a whole one but I'll split one with you if you want.

The world doesn't get better on its own. It gets better because people make it better: penny by penny, vote by vote, and one lesson at a time. So: Start where you are. Use what you have. Help who you can.

May we all live up to his example; may we all try to be the one who hears a new

One thing he'd learned time and again was that you never could tell what kind of private hell people were fighting through.

I usually find," Evan said, "that people will show you how they want to be treated if you pay attention.

great Sufi poet Rumi. With words that are simple and powerful, he states, "Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.

Key 20: We must become in our lives the very things that we choose to experience in our world.

Remember, the hard part isn't killing," he says, not for the first time, or the fiftieth. "The hard part is staying human.

Always respect life. Then you'll value yours. The hard part isn't turning you into a killer. The hard part is keeping you human.

I'd tell my mother to, you know, go you-know-what herself and I would go help those children. They're in an orphanage and they've got family! That's sickening. What does John do? Nothing. His kids are in an orphanage... and he does nothing. ~ Michelle Jarvis

what if we individually and collectively committed ourselves to the one thing that is needful—to replicating the loving sacrifice of Calvary to all people, at all times, in all places, regardless of their circumstances or merit? What if we just did the kingdom?

If we have the potential to oppress or slay millions, it's because we also have the potential to liberate and love millions.

To be wounded by the suffering of others is a gift of the Holy Spirit.

Remember that people break down, too, not just machinery.

Here is what we seek: a compassion that can stand in awe at what the poor have to carry rather than stand in judgment at how they carry it.

Close both eyes see with the other one. Then we are no longer saddled by the burden of our persistent judgments our ceaseless withholding our constant exclusion. Our sphere has widened and we find ourselves quite unexpectedly in a new expansive location in a place of endless acceptance and infinite love.

Kindness is the only strength there is.

If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives.

Kinship– not serving the other, but being one with the other. Jesus was not "a man for others"; he was one with them. There is a world of difference in that.

God would seem to be too occupied in being unable to take Her eyes off of us to spend any time raising an eyebrow in disapproval.

Success and failure, ultimately, have little to do with living the gospel. Jesus just stood with the outcasts until they were welcomed or until he was crucified — whichever came first.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a covenant between equals. Al Sharpton always says, "We're all created equal, but we don't all end up equal.

The strategy of Jesus is not centered in taking the right stand on issues, but rather in standing in the right place—with the outcast and those relegated to the margins.

The God, who is greater than God, has only one thing on Her mind, and that is to drop, endlessly, rose petals on our heads. Behold the One who can't take His eyes off of you. Marinate in the vastness of that.