Quotes About Compassion

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Eso es, por supuesto, lo que hicieron Jesús y muchas personas más.

Aim for the Heart, Not the Head "Lesson number one, when people ask me what [interviewing] tips would I give, is aim for the heart, not the head. Once you get the heart, you can go to the head. Once you get the heart and the head, then you'll have a pathway to the soul.

when I speak with anyone about anything, I try to hold their perspective with a "light grip": the knowledge that they, and I, have very incomplete maps of reality.

Develop a philosophy of giving as soon as you enter the working world.

Obras de Pema Chödrön:

Everyone struggles. Take solace in that.

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on."–Criss Jami American poet and author of Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile

Live. Give. Forgive." They are by far the most important things in life.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. —BISHOP DESMOND TUTU, South African cleric and activist

I doubt we will ever be forgiven. All I hope is – they'll remember we were human beings

justification by faith alone frees me to love my neighbor disinterestedly, for his or her own sake, as my sister or brother, not as the calculated means to my own desired ends.

Do not let your hurt cause you to hate.

Only in self-sacrifice can man live fully as man, Catholic teaching states. Some people sacrifice for an idea, but really, John Paul argues, we give up our lives only for other people—or for God. And that true sacrifice requires love, which in turn requires true human contact. Community bonds make that love real. And so these two popes show us that true inclusion of the poor—by living in community with them—is the only way to carry out our duty to serve the poor.

This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful.

there isn't shame in having shadows - we all have them to varying degrees. it's simply a part of being human

Love, tenderness, and compassion are universal human emotions that have long quickened the heart and informed the spirit.

If we did not feel the bitterness of his anger, we would not so sweetly relish His love.

If you saw a wounded person, torn and mangled, on the highway, the sight of so deplorable an object would fill you with compassion; the sight of your friends under the disease I am now speaking ought to move you much more, for it is tearing them to pieces every moment. Every moment it preys upon their vitals, and they are continually dying, yet cannot die.

Our relationships are often harmed when we try to atone for our own sins while condemning the other person for his.

holding onto an offense will make you a bitter and unloving person, and you will inevitably damage all your relationships.

Even if he never does this, I am called to maintain an attitude of forgiveness toward the offender.

The Macedonians gave in the context of their lack of resources.

Have you ever wished you didn't have to give or serve?