Quotes About Compassion

Jesus was able to love men because he loved them right through the layer of mud.

He who cannot forgive another breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. GEORGE HERBERT

Jesus requires—no, demands—a response of forgiveness.

Nothing else — no learned "how-to" program, no expensive gift — is worth more to the sufferer than the comfortable assurance of your physical presence.

the issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree.

we in the body of Christ are called to show love when God seems not to.

God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him. JÜRGEN MOLTMANN

Según el rabino Kushner, Dios se siente tan frustrado, incluso tan indignado con la injusticia de este planeta como cualquier otro, pero carece del poder necesario para cambiar las cosas. Millones de lectores han encontrado consuelo en la descripción que hace Kushner de un Dios que parece compasivo, aunque sea débil.

What greater gift could Christians give to the world than the forming of a culture that upholds grace and forgiveness?

The free offer of grace extends not just to the undeserving but to those who in fact deserve the opposite: to Ku Klux Klanners as well as civil rights marchers, to P.

si alguna vez me llego a preguntar cuál será la respuesta «espiritual" adecuada al dolor y el sufrimiento, puedo observar cómo reaccionó Jesús ante sus propios sufrimientos: con temor y temblor, con gritos y lágrimas.

Does the Christian emphasis on love, grace, and forgiveness have any relevance outside quarreling families or church encounter groups? In a world where force matters most, a lofty ideal like forgiveness may seem as insubstantial as vapor.

Because of Jesus, I can never say about a person, "She must be suffering because of some sin she committed"; Jesus, who did not sin, also felt pain.

Like grace, forgiveness has about it the maddening quality of being undeserved, unmerited, unfair.

We Christians are called to use the "weapons of grace," which means treating even our opponents with love and respect.

why God asks us to forgive: because that is what God is like.

God, help me to see others not as my enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.

An institution cannot love; only people can love. As the proverb says, apart from love, giving becomes an insult.

For Jesus, the person was more important than any category or label.

God is present in the hungry, the homeless, the sick, and the imprisoned, as Jesus claimed in Matthew 25, and we serve God when we serve them.

it seems so unfair, to forgive injustice. I am caught between forgiveness and justice.

Forgiveness may be unfair—it is, by definition—but at least it provides a way to halt the juggernaut of retribution.

Our need to give is every bit as desperate as the poor's need to receive.

King clung to nonviolence because he profoundly believed that only a movement based on love could keep the oppressed from becoming a mirror image of their oppressors. He wanted to change the hearts of the white people, yes, but in a way that did not in the process harden the hearts of the blacks he was leading toward freedom. Nonviolence, he believed, 'will save the Negro from seeking to substitute one tyranny for another.