Quotes About Compassion

I'd like another child, and maybe if it doesn't work out, I'll adopt.

The work of our missionaries is a magnificent expression of the Lord's redeeming love.

It is a wonderful thing if one can use one's place of work as a place of spiritual practice as well.

We must work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation and always keep in mind the interests of others. We cannot destroy our neighours! We cannot ignore their interests!

Part of my spiritual work is learning to live with the knowledge that we can't protect our loved ones from pain and heartache.

To survive, humans will work together. Accept each other. For a moment, we are all equal. Backs against the wall, human beings are at their finest.

You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.

I guess if you're doing God's work, whatever you do is in His name.

As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve.

I don't plan how many people I work with. I don't charge anything. It's for my own learning, and I just enjoy being the welcoming committee. I became a doula by default.

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.

If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.

It's up to you to avail yourself to knowledge. Knowledge doesn't need you. The idea of a compassionate God was formulated, obviously, by someone who didn't want to do any work.

Meidtation and selfless giving must always go together. They work together to create immortality.

Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else.

As long as we decline to allow sick uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.

Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long you'll spend the rest of your days weeping for each and every person in the world.

All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

I believe that we all need to do charitable work. It should be taken seriously in the area of education, as someone from the industry.

Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?

The Lord's way to help those in temporal need requires people who out of love have consecrated themselves and what they have to God and to His work.

I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.

Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.

I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.