Quotes About Compassion

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS, AS WE ALSO HAVE FORGIVEN OUR DEBTORS." MATTHEW 6:12

HIS COMPASSIONS FAIL NOT. THEY ARE NEW EVERY MORNING. LAMENTATIONS 3:22-23 NKJV

If there was anything obviously heroic about medieval surgery, it was the patient.

Each of us is guilty of the good we don't do.

There was no way to get around the fact that Jesus makes a very unnatural demand on His followers. He asks us to remain forever turned toward the Other, to seeing my worst enemy as my neighbor.

By my reckoning, you are issued about a dozen friends in life, and if one of mine happens to be in a prison jumpsuit, well, better him than me, but that doesn't erase the bond.

While grace does do away with the need for good works, it's grace which also makes good works truly possible. If good works don't play into your salvation, then doing them is a sheer act of love, both for those they benefit and to God. It's a way of solving the conundrum of how can a good work be truly good if the doer of the work expects to benefit from it in any way." -David Clark

There is a special feeling of knowing that nothing must die for me to thrive.

You are not evil, Fell. You have just been robbed of love. Of light.

Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.

In that moment she learnt one of the greatest secrets of life: It is often easier to fight for others than it is for yourself.

Man, who thinks he knows everything. But what does man know...Man cares only for himself, in his fear and hate.

There are only two choices in how you or anyone else experiences the moment—in a state of love, or in a quest for love. Anger, resentment, frustration, sorrow, or any other painful expressions are simply unconscious calls for love. Whether someone is loving you or seemingly attacking you, the proper response is always love.

True forgiveness is the only key to real awakening. This level of forgiveness sees that individuals are always doing the very best they can in each moment,

I have always tried to use humor to "help ever" and "hurt never," for I find that to laugh is like swallowing a secret that Santa Claus farted.

If we've deluded ourselves into thinking that our angry mass emails or conversation-stopping talking points serve as a ministry or carry out the purposes of God, we need to slow down and take a breath.

The little everyday neglect of imagining other people well can add up to a lifetime of flawed, perverted vision, an expenditure of soul in a waste of emotionalism.

Witness calls for with ness, the complete opposite of detached observation... To receive the witness of another is to enter into a vision that isn't accessible to us in isolation; we realize ourselves as members of one another and feel compelled to act accordingly, finding that we can't easily live with ourselves if we don't.

The poet Mary Rose O'Reilly describes the process aptly: "People all over the world are doing very hard things—turning the other cheek, giving all they have to the poor, eating potatoes without salt—because some confused and yawning student took a note.

Since causing massive unnecessary harm is wrong if anything is wrong, the judgement that factory farming is an indefensible institution seems inescapable.

Everything you do right now ripples outward and affects everyone. Your posture can shine your heart or transmit anxiety. Your breath can radiate love or muddy the room in depression. Your glance can awaken joy. Your words can inspire freedom. Your every act can open hearts and minds.

Just remember that self-discipline is not self-suppression. Suppression is when you resist and fight against your desires, keeping them as buried and unexpressed as possible. Self-discipline is when your highest desires rule your lesser desires, not through resistance, but through loving action grounded in understanding and compassion.

Your only real choices are to open fully and receive their gifts or crucify them and be relieved of their force...But you must be willing to feel your heart's terrors and wounds or else you will close and protect yourself, striking back at the source of openness you most yearn to become...