Quotes About Compassion

Do you beg to give away your resources? Are you working passionately to find ways to bless others? This is a sign of true generosity.

The heart regulates the hands.

much of the bad communication, needless conflict, and constant frustration stem from our responses to the ways the other person is different from us.

Are you frustrated with someone in your life? Have you been trying to reshape her to fit into your personal preferences?

I was good at helping other people see and own their sin. But I was not willing to believe that my need was just as desperate. Maybe I was blinded by my theological knowledge or my pastoral skill. But

Be humble, gentle, patient, and forbearing in love

Yet we are most true to our identity and calling when we live in the midst of broken people.

Humility enables us to see our own sin before we focus on the sin and weaknesses of another.

A gentle person can use strength without damaging those he is trying to help.

Do people regularly feel bruised in their relationship with you?

The words of an ambassador are always other-centered. Consider the problem ("according to their needs")

My words must be shaped by your need. An ambassador's words always address the person's true need of the moment.

Confronting a teenager five minutes before she leaves for school is not helpful, even if the content is accurate. Rebuking a friend for an offense in front of others is not helpful. Asking your husband to consider how you hurt him as he is trying to get to sleep is not helpful.

Godly conflict is an act of compassion!

What sins and weaknesses in the other person do you need to consider as you decide what your next move will be? In

And we urge you, brothers, warn those who are idle, encourage the timid, help the weak, be patient with everyone.

When we choose to practice true forgiveness, the relationship is not just brought back to where it was before the offense; it actually moves further down the road to maturity.

An entrenched refusal to forgive is a sign that you have not known God's amazing forgiveness yourself.

I need to keep practicing forgiveness every time I see you or think of you.

Forgiveness has a vertical and a horizontal dimension

When I consider someone's sin as I stand before the Lord, I am called to have an attitude of forgiveness toward the person who sinned against me. This is non-negotiable.

Kindness to your family costs you almost nothing but affords a wealth of goodwill.

But they simply didn't know Sammy in the late hours, all his virulent bedtime prayers whispered away into his folded hands, releasing his worry and anxiety over the sinful so he could sleep well and fight the devil again in the daylight. And, easefully and kindly, he'd hold Abby in his arms, becoming just as lost as everyone else, just as blind in the dark.

If lawyers had followed the norm of no execution without trial, if doctors had accepted the rule of no surgery without consent, if businessmen had endorsed the prohibition of slavery, if bureaucrats had refused to handle paperwork involving murder, then the Nazi regime would have been much harder pressed to carry out the atrocities by which we remember it. Professions