Quotes About Compassion

People have reasons for what they do, Beatrice. And even if those reasons can't be justified, that doesn't make them bad people, just flawed. You have to remember," she said, "someone or something has hurt them too.

That's why you have to save the dying man. Because you want him around to keep saving you.

I could actually see LOVE—not words, not an emotion, not an abstract concept or a subjective state of mind, but a living, breathing thing.

you need faith for forgiveness

Why are the ones who need the most shelter always the ones left out in the rain?

I was taught at a tender age that Bullying had nothing to do with me; instead it had everything to do with the heartache of the person doing the bullying.

I tell their stories here to do all of them some small honor. Their lives and, sometimes, their deaths speak to what we are capable of as average people in the face of evil and horror.

Without fanfare or ceremony, Laura Mae Corrigan began funneling all her money—an average of two thousand dollars a month—into her charity for wounded French soldiers. She would earn among those veterans the title of the "American Angel.

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

That's the scandal of grace. It means that if you've been working hard to be right with God, then you've been wasting your time because God welcomes everyone—righteous and unrighteous alike.

We were not made to look inward for self-realization, but to look outwards in love. I

It is bad enough when rich Christians shoe little concern for the poor, but when they moan about their lot, they show contempt not only for the poor but also for the generosity of God.

We mustn't settle for a Sunday-school picture of Jesus dressed in a sparkling white robe surrounded by happy children. He was a real person, living in a world of dirt, pain, and frustration.

As Queen Elizabeth II said after her annus horribilis: "There can be no doubt that criticism is good for people and institutions . . . but scrutiny can be just as effective if it is made with a touch of gentleness, good humor, and understanding.

She may not have enough money to visit the canteen, but they look at her as though she is a hero.

You can ask yourself, 'Why would so many people experience this kind of miserable place and not vacate?' Because it is a place full of people with nowhere else to go." •

Almighty Father, please stop making jerks. Amen...Break!

Love is a journey that requires patience, kindness, and understanding. It's not always easy, but it's always worth it.

The greatest happiness in life is the feeling of being loved, and the greatest gift we can give is to love others in return.

If you're a father of a child who dies, it's an experience that never leaves you. It scars you forever and ever and ever. And so when I do any kind of story with somebody who's in the same position as my daughter was, there's no question that something comes out of me and embraces that story in a way that only a father who lost a child could.

There's no question that the best way to get people to care about an issue is to humanize it.

You need somebody just to say, 'Hey, I'm here for you. Do you need anything?' If you can get somebody like that, you can make it, no question about it. You can make it.

There is no reason, in the capital city of the richest country in the world, for anybody to be hungry.

This is the richest country in the world. There's no reason kids should be going to school hungry. Food is something that everyone should have. It just is.