Quotes About Compassion

It is not on our forgiveness any more than our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

Somehow, out of his watch shop that never made money, he fed and dressed and cared for eleven more children after his own four were grown.

And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His (Jesus). When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

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These young women. That girl back at the bunkers. Corrie, if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love! We must find the way, you and I, no matter how long it takes. .

And so I learned that love is larger than the walls that shut it in.

I slipped my arm beneath Betsie's shoulders and half-carried her the final quarter-mile. At last the path ended and we lined up facing the single track, over a thousand women standing toe to heel.

If I go home today," he said evenly and clearly, "tomorrow I will open my door again to any man in need who knocks.

Kapteyn appeared with Betsie in the dining room door. Her lips were swollen and puffy, a bruise was darkening on her cheek. She half fell into the chair next to mine. "Oh Betsie! He hurt you!" "Yes." She dabbed at the blood on her mouth. "I feel so sorry for him." Kapteyn whirled, his white face even paler. "Prisoners will remain silent!" he shrieked.

Surely there is no more wretched sight than the human body unloved and uncared for.

I remembered Father's words to the Gestapo chief in The Hague: "I will open my door to anyone in need. . . ." No one in the city was in greater need than its feeble-minded.

That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there. And

God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART

I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live.

It may be literally said that he was a man of one idea, and that was, love, to Jesus, and a desire to manifest it in all its varied forms.

She supposed that's what grace was—a second chance that isn't deserved.

Yeah, I feel super sorry for you that you have to be locked in a car with a guy that looks like Chris Evans after the super soldier serum.

Nobody deserves forgiveness, Will. That's the point. That's what grace is.

Some things are true, regardless of who you are. Saying something kind and from the heart is never a bad idea, and it's never the wrong thing to do.

You know that unkindness just makes you get old before your time." "That's true," Dad calls from the living room. "Rots your bones and makes you constipated! Look at your Aunt June!

She sat on the toilet and cradled her aborted baby, as if it were alive. And her eyes were like an endless well where you could not see the bottom.

Funny how meaningful those small tender gestures can be: a friend picking burrs off your shirt, the ones you can't get because they're stuck in that unreachable spot on your back.

I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you.

I like to believe that there is an extra warm corner of hell for these fuckers who traffic in emotional misery.