Quotes About Compassion

The only way I know to pluck from the hearts of enemies their desire to destroy us is to remove from their lives the sense that, for their own physical and spiritual survival, they must.

If we can't be ballplayers together, maybe I can start bein' a Buddhist.

I gave him everything from my lunches I hate, which is called Charity.

an eye for an eye is smart, see, but love is dumb, lovers are fools.

He turned His back upon His Son so that He would never have to turn His back on you.

every troubled time and every troubled person.

God's past faithfulness and compassion toward us is a heritage upon which we build our faith in the future.

The Bible says when others treat you badly, you're supposed to love them, pray for them, bless them, and do good things for them. If you can't do it because you want to, then you must do it because you're obedient.

Love without distinction. Love without calculation. Love without procrastination. Just love.

Return to the LORD your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness; and He relents from doing harm" (Joel 2:13).

When insult comes our way, we look for a way to respond in love (Matthew 5:38-39).

Love is not about what we feel for others— it's about what we do for others.

When insult comes our way, we look for a way to respond in love (Matthew

The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help.

I don't want to have to tell them that my life lost all its meaning when they died. They loved me, and they wouldn't want that.

Mother Teresa, and she once told me that "death is part of the achievement of life.

After all my years working with the dying and the grieving, I have found that in this lifetime, the ultimate meaning we find is in everyone we have loved.

Just because you are dealing with difficult people does not mean that you must become like them.

Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?

underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.

Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be

What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we've never met.

Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful world.

It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being. It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.