Quotes About Compassion

I believe you're a good fellow but you have yet to learn the dignity of altruism and the responsibility of the human individual.

Generous tears filled Gabriel's eyes. He had never felt like that himself towards any woman but he knew that such a feeling must be love.

Wery weeny wight, plead for Morandmor! Notre Dame de la Ville, mercy of thy balmheartzyheat!

Love and light are the essential fruits of a Christlike life.

Saint Augustine once admonished that we should never use the truth to injure. I believe there are dark and uncertain moments in our lives when it's not wrong for each of us to feel that he wrote those words especially for us.

god bless the world

I had to feel sorry for Bubba's wife. In AA we called it denial. We take the asp to our breast and smile at the alarm we see in the eyes of others.

Many years ago I learned that we discover the best and worst in people when they're under duress. I think that principle has certainly borne out with my pitiful friend. I wish I had not been witness to it. I take his car keys and drive him to my home and keep him there until he's sober. He weeps in shame before he drives himself home.

what do you say to people who are doing their best when their best is not enough?

Did you ever see a mob rush across town to do a good deed?

Sometimes the father poured a sack full of dry rice on the floor and made Clete kneel on the kernels until sunrise; sometimes he sat on the side of the bed and gently touched Clete's face with a hand that was as callused as a carpenter's; sometimes he lay down beside Clete and wept as a child would.

Mortality is not kind, and do not let anyone tell you it is.

At heart they were secular Calvinists and believed their fellow man was born in a degraded state; consequently, they oversaw atrocities with equanimity and substituted pragmatism for compassion and slept the sleep of the dead.

I do not mean to assault anyone's sensibilities, but once you face death or reach out and touch it with your hand, or look into the half-lidded eyes of a woman or child or man whose life has been violently taken, you bond with them and silently try to console them for the theft of their lives. You promise to carry them in your heart and never tell anyone about it. I think that's what humanity is about.

We get hurt worse by the people whom we care about. And they seldom mean to do it. That's what makes it so painful, kiddo.

How many lives would have been spared had we not lent ourselves to the defense of a repellent cause like slavery?

I don't like to bust drunk drivers. I don't like to listen to their explanations, watch their pitiful attempts to affect sobriety, or see the sheen of fear break out in their eyes when they realize they're headed for the drunk tank with little to look forward to in the morning except the appearance of their names in the newspaper. Or maybe in truth I just don't like to see myself when I look into their faces.

He was going to kill you," she said. "And me. Fair's fair. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a candy for a candy, a penny for your thoughts." "Still and all. We don't kill unless we have to." River reflected on this, then smiled brightly. "Okay! That's a good rule." "I like to think so.

There are no limits to kindness and consideration.22

a Quaker abolitionist with "a reasonable leaning toward wrath in cases of emergency

A man ain't got to stand in church every Sunday to do God's work.

In that moment he realized that all the experience of thirty-two years in the NYPD and all the formal police training in the world was useless when the smile of someone you suddenly care about finds the bow that wraps your heart and undoes it.

her smile of understanding and acceptance that said, "All intangibles are forgiven, I accept them and more—your faults, your dips and turns, everything, because our love is a hammer forged at the anvil of God and not even your most foolish, irrational act can break it." That look.

all the formal police training in the world was useless when the smile of someone you suddenly care about finds the bow that wraps your heart and undoes it.