Quotes About Compassion

On three things life rests: on right, which is set forth in the Law; on truth, which is set forth in the world; and on the love of one man for another, which is set forth in your heart.

Let us say that kindness costs me so little and rewards me well.

I suppose I have cause you grief and misery at times, but I have never intentionally caused you embarrassment and discomfort.

There is a limit to the development of the intellect but none of that of the heart

But what is the imagination for if not tto grasp how the world feels to those who don't think what you think?

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

Life should always take precedence; when a wedding meets a funeral on the road, the funeral should step aside.

Marry," quoth Robin, laughing, and weighing the flask in his hands ere he drank, "methinks it is no more than seemly of you all to be glad to see me, seeing that I bring sight to the blind, speech to the dumb, hearing to the deaf, and such a lusty leg to a lame man. I drink to your happiness, brothers, as I may not drink to your health, seeing ye are already hale, wind and limb.

When you give up,' said a slim older man whose home we rebuilt, 'you might as well lay down and die.' It was obvious that we weren't just giving people back their homes, but also restoring a sense of dignity.

I've never thought of the third place just as a physical environment. For me, the third place has always been a feeling. An emotion. An aspiration that all people can come together and be uplifted as a result of a sense of belonging. This is the cornerstone of our business, yes, but "belonging" is also a basic human right, which should be afforded all members of a society.

Ihave come to believe that people must not stand by in the face of human distress and broken systems. And if these two predicaments are intertwined—if human suffering is the result of others abdicating their responsibilities, or showing a lack of respect for another person—it becomes what can only be described as an injustice.

He was a very tenderhearted guy - not towards people necessarily, but towards goldfish.

If you're a Christian you don't sit there and worry about what somebody else is doing, if they're happy and they're committed in a relationship.

You will find what you look for in people and in the world. If you are loving, you will find love. If you seek beauty, you will see beauty. If you pursue goodness, you will receive goodness. What you are inside will attract the same from outside. When you love, love comes to you. When you hate, hate finds you.

Love comes from God, and relationships not grounded in the love of God are based on the exploitation of other people. Only through the love of God can we see the true value and beauty of another person.

When we love God, love our brothers and sisters, and love ourselves, our Maker is pleased.

There is a certain grandeur and nobility in administering to another's need out of one's fullness and plenty.

There is a certain grandeur and nobility in administering to another's need out of one's fullness and plenty. One

Again the crucial question: Is there any help to be found for the disinherited in the religion of Jesus?

Today, at the close of Thurman's century, those people who live most obviously with their backs against the wall—for instance, the homeless, the working and jobless poor, the substance abused and abusers, the alienated, misguided, and essentially abandoned young people—are rarely within hearing or seeing range of the company of Jesus' proclaimed followers.

To revile because one has been reviled—this is the real evil because it is the evil of the soul itself." Jesus saw this with almighty clarity. Again and again he came back to the inner life of the individual.

To revile because one has been reviled—this is the real evil because it is the evil of the soul itself.

It is very easy to sit in judgment upon the behavior of others but often difficult to realize that every judgment is a self-judgment.

The masses of men live with their backs constantly against the wall. They are the poor, the disinherited, the dispossessed. What does our religion say to them?