Quotes About Compassion

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

We must give ourselves a good hard mental swat every time we feel inclined to mock, sneer, or roll our eyes at those whose beliefs differ from our own. You

This prophecy against Eli emphasizes that you can end up in grave sin by thinking it very important to be nice to people. How easy it is to practice a gutless compassion that never wants to offend anyone, that equates niceness with love and thereby ignores God's law and essentially despises his holiness. We do not necessarily seek God's honor when we spare human feelings.

Jesus, Willard says, "does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him.

Given love and opportunity, every child and adult can recover. All who know this and have the capacity to help others should assist as they can.

The child tortures the fly because he has the power to do so, and had not yet learned how mercifully to kill.

He looked down at a tired face that was only fifty-one years old. He looked down and thought dad I feel lots older than you. I was sorry for you dad. Things weren't going well and they never would have gone well for you and it's just as good you're dead. People've got to be quicker and harder these days than you were dad. Goodnight and good-dreams. I won't forget you and I'm not as sorry for you today as I was yesterday. I loved you dad goodnight.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

Reading is an act of radical empathy: turning the page instead of turning away.

I want to watch you walk through the world before you leave it and if you stumble I'll rush forward to catch you. I like to think I'd show you the kindness you never showed me. I'd like you to owe me a favour. I want to show you that I did it. I want you to be proud of me.

I've learned over the years that sooner or later a person's physical appearance comes to resemble whatever is in their heart.

Perhaps it's just me, but I don't think Jesus' words were meant to be tied to a brick and chunked through your neighbor's window at midnight. Anytime you drop a picture of Christ in the mailbox while muttering a self-righteous "This'll teach 'em," something has gone terribly wrong.

Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give.

all living creatures are entitled to respect in their own right, not simply because of the utility they may possess for other humans.

More is achieved by love than hate. Hate is the downfall of any race or nation.' Josephine Baker

he is incapable of examining his own pain like a spore on a slide and finding it interesting, interesting. If your own pain is interesting to yo, how much more detached will you be from somebody else's pain...

Do you think me weak, flawed? Do you hate me for setting my Inquisitorial role above the needs of one agonised being?

Jake's father, Doc Polson, had tended to hundreds of scraped knees and bumped heads. He'd set four broken arms and fixed dozens of sprained ankles before people got used to hopping on and off the moving wagons. He'd also salved a couple of dozen scalds and burns, he'd sat up with a child with croup for three nights, and he'd even delivered two babies, with the help of Aunt May, the midwife.

You are walking along the shores of a lake,' Sindermann said. 'A boy is drowning. Do you let him drown because he was foolish enough to fall into the water before he had learned to swim? Or do you fish him out, and teach him how to swim?' Loken shrugged. 'The latter.' 'What if he fights you off as you attempt to save him, because he is afraid of you? Because he doesn't want to learn how to swim?' 'I save him anyway.

In any event, how can the temporal sufferings of Jesus compare to the sufferings of the entire human race? Did Jesus ever experience the pain of childbirth? The billions of women going through labor are much more life giving, much more nurturing of value than a few hours of self-imposed bleeding on a cross. The

Religion + Good Works = Good Works Solve for Religion.

Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not.

Our business is not enemy making but enemy loving. Our business is not dividing the country into blue and red states, but being a people of one accord. Our business is not securing the power to rule, but doing justice, showing mercy, and walking humbly with our God.

Truth is important, but truth at the cost of loving relationships is not Christianity. And relationships that ignore truth will lose integrity sooner or later.