Quotes About Compassion

We're friendly toward strangers because of a general belief (I don't know where it comes from) that we're born strangers and that the memory of how that feels never really leaves us.

Were those exact words said: 'I no longer love you'?" "No." "No. Hardly anybody ever says it like that, do they? They simply become unkind.

Her heart's breaking. It breaks three times a week on account of people treating her so badly, and she knows that all you can do is laugh it off.

Very few people can watch others endure humiliation without recognizing the part they play in increasing it.

It is important to stress the ways that people are different from each other, because so much of the suffering that we experience in our relationships with other people is caused by the fact that we are blind to their point of view.

Before, I had asked God to right the wrongs and comfort the suffering. Now I know - really know - that God entrusts those tasks to us.

if I were to be murdered I would not want my murderer executed. I would not want my death avenged. Especially by government — which can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.

St. John of the Cross gives the coda on this one: "In the evening of life we will be judged by love.

Father asks me to tell all who have remained loyal to him and those over who they might have influence, that they should not advenge him, for he has forgiven everyone and prays for them all; that they should not themselves seek revenge; that they should remember that the evil there is now is in the world will become yet more powerful, and that it is not evil that will conquer evil – only love.

Show kindness to all, be gentle and loving, then all will love you

Having benefited from happy days, should I not share with them the bad days?

I would do anything," he said in quiet desperation, "even going to prison, if she could only be well again.

Helen Rappaport

quiet, unprovocative, unfailingly polite to one another and to them, and whose occasional sadness bore the stamp of a dignity their jailers could never emulate and were reluctantly compelled to admire'.

To take offense is to give offense.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

Peace, then, be unto everyone who becomes a teacher of peace. For peace is the acknowledgment of perfect purity from which no one is excluded.

Love always leads to love.

2 El que entiende el significado de dar, no puede por menos que reírse de la idea del sacrificio.

reconocemos que la paz de Dios refulge todavía en nosotros, y que se extiende desde nosotros hasta todas las cosas vivientes que comparten nuestra vida. 2 Las perdonamos a todas, y absolvemos al mundo entero de lo que pensábamos que nos había hecho. 3 Pues somos nosotros quienes construimos el mundo como queremos que sea.

Miracles are healing because they supply a lack; they are performed by those who temporarily have more for those who temporarily have less.

fear cannot be limited, just as love cannot have limits.

He casts out, so Jesus calls us to follow suit, to stop restricting our love to our inner circle: "If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you?"25 He calls us to love the destitute, the hated foreigner, our oppressor, and even our enemy with the same wholehearted love we currently reserve for our closest companions.

el perdón es una corrección necesaria para todos los errores que hemos cometido.