Quotes About Compassion

Para ti todos os homens são maus? Só as crianças são boas? - Sim. - Então eu também sou maus? - Não - disse Ngnunga- O camarada Professor é capaz de ser ainda um bocado criança, não sei.

Todos os seres vivos merecem o aceno de uma esperança, mesmo se estão inevitavelmente condenados à morte.

Never use the message of the cross to crucify those you don't like, or the sword of the Spirit to attack other believers.

No animal has a heart quite like a dog's

Is there not something more glorious about making music than making war?

There are some for whom the good of mankind is their primary concern, and others who basically put their own considerations before everyone else. I was among the latter.

A knot of women bursts through the glass door behind us. They slump onto the kerb, weeping and rocking on their haunches. Some have babies tied to their backs in white crocheted shawls. Their grief is raw and fierce, unmediated. A couple of men in ragged jackets stand by, embarrassed and self-conscious, and a gaggle of bewildered toddlers with mango-smeared mouths look up with wide almond eyes.

Third, by not judging it as good or otherwise, the teacher shows that judging is not what happens in this class. Instead, we think about how and why people do things.

Bila je ?ovekoljubiva.

Cuanto más me doy cuenta de lo mucho que tengo en común con todos, tanto menos solidario me siento con uno determinado.

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life?until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.

Love suffers far more for the pains of the beloved than for its own pains.

Mercy is Truth clothed; judgment is Truth naked.

The more you treat someone you hate as if you loved them, the more you will find yourself loving them.

Charity transcends mere virtue. Yet once this charity exists, it fulfills all virtue, as the New Law fulfills the Old and as grace fulfills nature. Charity is the heart and soul of all virtue.

from each according to his ability to each according to his need"

We too can love with the will even when we do not have loving emotions or feelings. We make this distinction toward ourselves quite easily, so we should be able to do it toward others too when necessary.

it is possible to love one's friend for another reason than God, whereas God is the only reason for loving one's enemy.

But to observe our neighbor's faults with the intention of looking down upon them or of detracting them . . . is sinful.

But all true effort to help begins with self-humiliation: the helper must first humble himself under him he would help, and therewith must understand that to help does not mean to be a sovereign but to be a servant, that to help does not mean to be ambitious but to be patient, that to help means to endure for the time being the imputation that one is in the wrong and does not understand what the other understands.

Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.

It's out of liberal-hearted love and compassion for people that the Church has always been so hardheadedly conservative about doctrine.

we forgive those who trespass

Love works; and if we do not see the works of love (in places where they obviously ought to be) then we can be sure that love is not present.