Quotes About Compassion

Jarrod frowned like he felt bad for me, and I thought I saw maybe even a hint of tears in his eyes, like he was attending the funeral of a good friend who had died in an accident, and was looking down at his dead body, thinking, That's not him, the way I'd thought when I saw my grandmother in her casket, all made up with colors she'd have never chosen for herself had she been alive.

If oppression produced saints, we'd want everyone to be oppressed.

Friends don't keep score,

The fundamental problem with fundamentalists was that no matter how much touchy-feely love and peace their religions professed, in practice they always turned into prescriptions for moral contempt. Reasons to hate were given divine sanction... If you consider somebody's behaviour or beliefs an affront to your God for which they will suffer an eternity of pain and humiliation, it makes it kind of hard to then treat that person as an equal human being.

Perhaps, after all, the most beautiful words in the language are I'm sorry.

True insight comes from standing in solidarity with victims.

The best vantage point for clarifying one's moral responsibility when harm has occurred is in the dirt and blood alongside the wounded party, not at the safe distance of a detached jurist debating the details of the relevant legislation.

Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, says the Lord GOD, and not rather that they should turn from their ways and live?

When Jesus concludes the parable by asking the lawyer, "Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the one who fell among robbers?" (v. 36), he is indicating that the question, "Who is my neighbor?" is really a victim's question, which can only be answered from a victim's point of view.

We are called to play the Good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway.

Contrary to what many people think today, punishment as such is not what satisfies the demands of justice. Justice is satisfied by repentance, restoration, and renewal. Punishment serves as a mechanism for helping to promote such restoration.

Significantly, "compassion" in Luke's Gospel is used only of God (1:78, cf. 1:50, 54) and of Jesus (7:13), and of the two most extraordinary parabolic characters of all: the father of the Prodigal Son (15:20) and the Good Samaritan (10:33).21

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

MARGARET Have any of you Seen that poor child Alizon? I think she must be lost. NICHOLAS Who isn't? The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can. Now don't be worried. She can't be more lost than she was with us.

A priest found an infant, about ten inches long, Crammed into the poor-box. The money had all Been taken. Nothing was there except myself, I was the baby, as it turned out. The priest, Thinking I might have eaten the money, held me Upside down and shook me, which encouraged me To live, I suppose, and I lived.

Looking down upon us maybe God laughs, but at the same time he cries too.

If only inflicted pain could be as contagious As a plague, you might use it more sparingly.

A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can change the course of your life.

What is friendship, if not a chance to indulge in mutual self-pity?

Men enjoy the happiness they feel. We can only enjoy the happiness we give.

Si vives tu vida con compasión, amas a los demás y te dejas guiar por la pura y clara voz del corazón, tu espíritu crecerá.

So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.

Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.