Quotes About Compassion

Blessed are you who, among the numberless swept away in terror, permitted a few to suffer carefully.

Blessed are you who speaks to the unworthy.

The cripple here that you clothe and feed Is neither starved nor cold; He does not ask for your company, Not at the centre, the centre of the world.

We spoke so that we could become tender. It was not the kind of tenderness which follows passion, but the kind which follows failure.

Courage is continuing to perform your daily tasks, and being hopeful despite the odds, not inflicting your fears on others, and remaining sensitive to their needs and expectations, and also not supposing, because you're dying, nothing matters any more.

The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.

I AM CONVINCED I am convinced That if all mankind Could only gather together In one circle Arms on each other's shoulders And dance, laugh and cry together Then much of the tension and burden of life Would fall away In the knowledge that We are all children Needing and wanting Each other's Comfort and Understanding We are all children Searching for love

I believe in goodness, mercy and charity. I believe in casting bread upon the waters.

The means of many out way the means of the few or one.

Thought for the Week "Refrain from littering the landscape with unkind, cynical, mean-spirited words, and you can return the world to a civility that was lost when human beings began deifying indiscriminant thoughts as if they were the truth." Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)

Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.

There is a love constraining me To go and seek the lost; I yield, O Lord, my all to Thee To save at any cost!

Yet again in writing to a friend of John Smith he says, "I have often seen him come downstairs in the morning after several hours in prayer, his eyes swollen with weeping. He would soon introduce the subject of his anxiety by saying, 'I am a brokenhearted man; yes, indeed, I am an unhappy man, not for myself but on account of others. God has given me such a sight of the value of precious souls that I cannot live if souls are not saved. Oh give me souls, or else I die!

Is life's span so dear and are home comforts so engrossing as to be purchased with my unfaithfulness and dry-eyed prayerlessness? At the final bar of God, shall the perishing millions accuse me of materialism coated with a few Scripture verses?

To become a better parent, you must become a better person.

It is never right for any individual or government to do any vast evil as a means to some hypothetical good.

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

There's a proverb, a maxim, that runs, 'The dead man is dead; let's give a hand to the living.' Now, you say that to a man from the North, and he visualizes the scene of an accident with one dead and one injured man; it's reasonable to let the dead man be and to set about saving the injured man. But a Sicilian visualizes a murdered man and his murderer, and the living man who's to be helped is the murderer.

Compassion was a kind of magic; listening was at least half the task.

There is no beast more cruel than man.

When a man has the rope about his neck, you don't ask him about his health!

It was strange to think that so much humane painstaking care and exertion was being introduced into the business of hanging people; that the most insane deed on earth was being committed with such an air of simplicity and reasonableness.

The fact that Isabella had failed her friend in the hour of her greatest need and effectively stolen her possessions was forgotten in her touching display of grief.