Quotes About Compassion

Only forgiveness frees us from the injustice of others.

A grace-full Christian is one who looks at the world through "grace-tinted lenses.

when we appeal to God's grace and compassion the fearsome God soon disappears.

Grace is not about finishing last or first; it is about not counting.

The phrase "the body of Christ," expresses well what we are called to do: to represent in flesh what Christ is like, especially to those in need. The

Ungrace plays like the background static of life for families, nations, and institutions. It is, sadly, our natural human state.

When you forgive someone, you slice away the wrong from the person who did it. You disengage that person from his hurtful act.

for the resulting chasms of ungrace there is only one remedy: the frail rope-bridge of forgiveness

Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative.

Forgiveness has its own extraordinary power which reaches beyond law and beyond justice.

One of the most important things we can do for a suffering person is to restore a sense of meaning or significance to the experience.

Then the question becomes, "How do we treat sinners?

the healthiest body is the one that feels the pain of its weakest parts. In

When I ask, "Tell me the first word that comes to your mind when I say Christian," not one time has someone suggested the word love. Yet without question that is the proper biblical answer.

the sound of a man forgiving.

forgiveness, and only forgiveness, can begin the thaw in the guilty party.

Despite a hundred sermons on forgiveness, we do not forgive easily, nor find ourselves easily forgiven.

persons with AIDS, and they hear a very clear message from the church: "You get no sympathy from me. You deserve your suffering as God's punishment. Keep away." I cannot think of a more terrifying disease than AIDS, or one that provokes a less compassionate response.

what about grace? How rare to find a church competing to "out-grace" its rivals.

Forgiveness, we discover, is always harder than the sermons make it out to be

The first step in helping a suffering person (or in accepting our own pain) is to acknowledge that pain is valid, and worthy of a sympathetic response.

It takes no grace to relate to someone who looks, thinks, and acts just like me.

God rejoices. Not because the problems of the world have been solved, not because all human pain and suffering have come to an end, nor because thousands of people have been converted and are now praising him for his goodness. No, God rejoices because one of his children who was lost has been found.

Forgiveness breaks the cycle of blame and loosens the stranglehold of guilt. It accomplishes these two things through a remarkable linkage, placing the forgiver on the same side as the party who did the wrong.