Quotes About Compassion

A junkie will steal your purse, and then help you look for it.

Every family possesses at least one off-the-charts challenging person. If you're tempted to tell me that yours doesn't, then I hate to be the one to break it to you, but maybe you are the one!

You care because God gave you this unusual blessing: a burden to make a difference.

He puts us here to make an eternal difference. He puts us here to show everyone around us how much He loves them. He puts us here to be His hands and feet, His body and His heart.

He knows every hair on your head, and he sees every tear you shed.

When you feel this burden, you might be frustrated, wondering why no one else cares as much as you do. The reason why you care and others don't could be because God has aimed it directly at you.

She asked God to use this experience to help my heart break forever for those who don't know Christ.

When dealing with overly critical people, try to see past the arrows to the struggles that launched them.

If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so you can stock up on capri pants for next summer or afford a leather interior in the new SUV.

On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfaction.

Through years of maturing, I've learned that it's not our job to force our beliefs down others' throats until they echo back what we want to hear. No, our job is to challenge their categories by doing the same things Jesus did: loving them, challenging them, accepting them, and forgiving them.

Al elegir a sus amigos, Jesús se rodeaba de los solitarios, los quebrantados, los ignorados por la sociedad. Dios te está llamando a formar parte de su iglesia, a ser su iglesia. Si no te consideras lo suficiente bueno, eres exactamente la persona que él está buscando.

Pause for a moment and prayerfully consider your response: What breaks your heart?

Fuimos creados para ser ejemplos vivientes del amor de Dios para un mundo que sufre.

When he chose friends, Jesus surrounded himself with the lonely, the broken, and the overlooked. God is calling you to be a part of his church, to be his church. If you don't feel like you're good enough, then you're exactly who he's looking for.

Rather than complaining about inconsequential little irritations, I'm asking God to get right to the root of the problem, to eradicate the dry rot and fix the cracks in my foundation. I need Him to show me how to love Him and how to love His people. Even the ones I don't like - even myself.

When I ask God to change my actions, that honesty about my own inconsistent behaviors forces me not to be so hard on other believers. Humble acknowledgment of the plank in my own eye gives me more patience with the specks in everyone else's (see Matthew 7:1-5). Instead of pointing the finger at others, let's allow God to examine us.

If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so you can stock up on capri pants for next summer or afford a leather interior in the new SUV. As long as you don't own the responsibility of being blessed with resources so that you can give to those around you, then you can stay focused on getting more for yourself.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

We find our lives when we give them away.

Rather than being concerned only with my hopes, my dreams, my concerns, I was called to shepherd others. To love them, hurt with them, pour into them.

You do have one prejudice though. I looked back at her again from under the brim of my hat. "You don't care about the living as much as you do the dead.

There wasn't anything more to say, so I didn't. That's the thing about comforting—it's almost more important to know when not to talk.

Like anything else, I think organized religion, like most human endeavors, is good when it's doing good and I think it's bad when it's doing bad.