Quotes About Compassion

Long before love is a corporate virtue that improves team performance, it is a personal leadership stance. The love-driven leader possesses the vision to see and engage others as they are, not through the cultural filters, prejudices, or narrow-mindedness that diminishes them.

Tip, if I had a ticket to heaven and you didn't have one too, I would give mine away and go to hell with you. Ronald Reagan

My priority is to see that some people don't suffer for the good of others.

Love is to love someone for who they are, who they were, and who they will be.

Listen close and you can hear, "Please, bless us and forgive us, and make us good here and strong here. Let us get along here. Let those we love and left behind be blessed. Let us find the proper path and keep to it. Help us act harmoniously, and find work pleasing in the sight of god and man."

I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.

Ma'am, we're past lying to each other. I'm trying to help you." "Why would you do that?" she said. "You helped me last night." "That don't make us friendly." "No, but it makes us even.

The saddest thing is a retarded man who is crying and promising a broken egg that it will still be a chicken some day. And that they'll play together in a field when it gets better.

If you think about it even medium-hard, launching a scared little dog into space with no intention of getting it back is a seriously fucked thing to do.

as author and scientist Dr. Jonathan Balcombe wrote in his 2010 book Second Nature, animals' thoughts and feelings are far more complex than humans previously imagined. "Animals are conscious beings with feelings," Balcombe noted, "yet our treatment of them remains medieval.

I tell her how sorry I am, and as I speak my words feel inadequate and pathetic.

I pray, I dream that we become a people who are known not because we have a huge steeple or beautiful stained glass or interesting buildings but because we are so hospitable, so celebratory, that we are constantly inviting others in and sharing Jesus.

As Christians who are called to love the least of these, we need to realize that poverty is not a problem, it is our problem. When we contemplate what is happening globally, we might likely agree that a large percentage of our income should be diverted immediately to care for those in greatest need. We could easily determine that 50 percent or more of our annual income should be given away.

We need to follow the example set for us by the people of God in Acts, who shared all that they had--a striking portrait of the church getting on her feet and discovering her unique identity. One of the church's shining features was her focus on sharing with anyone who had a need. It was as if Jesus had told them, 'I will provide everything that you need; the only obstacle is that some of you will have too much and others will not have enough. I'm counting on you to sort it out.

The extra weight I carry with me is a spiritual issue, and it is never more painfully obvious than when I visit brothers and sisters living in extreme poverty. I have felt the gentle and loving rebuke of the Holy Spirit as I held an underweight child. I have too much, and she does not have enough. It is a painful realization, not only because it exposes my selfishness but also because it is clear to me that my sin is evident to everyone present. Sharing is at the heart of true Christianity.

Love For the principle of love, you are going to take a different approach as your goal for this exercise is to develop a greater love for yourself. Most people are able to express love for others; however, many people have difficulty experiencing love for themselves. Ultimately, we cannot truly love others without first learning to love ourselves; it is critical that you be able to acknowledge your own self-worth.

He would feel horrible if anything happened to her and her baby, all because of him.

Frau Lennartz gab Fritz eine Handvoll Scheine, und Fritz wandte sich zum Gehen. Seine Mutter strich ihm die Haare aus der Stirn, ehe sie ihn entließ. Lela gab sich alle Mühe, dass auch ihre Haare so ins Gesicht hingen, und wartete, ob dann Frau Inge, wie sie sie hatte nennen hören, auch ihr die Haare aus der Stirn streichen würde.

Wenn die Menschen gewisse Exemplare ihrer eigenen Gattung aus Bosheit oder aus Unverstand, aus Gleichgültigkeit oder aus Angst vernichten müssen, dann fällt uns, bestimmt, vernichtet zu werden, eine unglaubliche Fähigkeit zu. Die Freiheit, die Menschen zu lieben und uns selbst nicht zu hassen.

We were thought by generations before us an eye for an eye and to love those that love us, but what if I tell you that true love has no boundaries brothers, it comes with peace, no sorrow and with no regrets

caring about lives is not caring about your own life. it's all about giving your last breath for others to live. The caring man is like the last crab out of a bucket. letting others step on your back to get out, and letting you not step on others back and that is love.

If you would serve God and be truly religious, do not kneel before God, but learn to walk with God, and do something tangible every day to increase the happiness of mankind. This is religion that is worthwhile, and it is such religion alone that can please the Infinite.

The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.

What we love in others we not only awaken in others, but we develop those very things more or less in ourselves.