Quotes About Compassion

I understand why you did what you did. Perhaps a part of me even admires you for it. But I can't forgive you for it.

Her eyes shot up to his, expressing gratitude. He ignored the pain her obvious relief brought him.

How many times could a mother's heart break? An infinite number of times. Each time her children were hurt. She'd long ago accepted the pain of it, as well as the stoicism to never let it show. It was a mother's lot in life.

Choose to take care of the careless and you will end up having nought

One of the best things any human must do, is to bleed for the others.

This world shall not be at peace, unless we eradicate jealous first.

If you have no more happiness to give: Give me your pain.

It was like the old joke: the operation was a success but the patient died. Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you don't consider your students to be human beings.

For so long I'd been doing what I'd accused other people of doing—I was seeing the deafness, not the people.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

And no kinds of love are better than others. Some Kinda Love

I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated.

simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.

When we suffer, it's always for somebody's saving—that issue is always hanging in the balance. It's not all about me; it's all about Jesus becoming known in this broken world.

So the person who has been forgiven much has much room to forgive others.

The Holy Spirit has filled my heart too much for me to hold that grudge against you. Our God is too big for us to hate others.

Do all that you can to live in peace with everyone. —ROMANS 12:18 NLT

Jesus never focused on the failure. He focused on the restoration.

Lord, plant a seed of kindness in my heart and let it grow so big that I just have to share it with everyone I meet.

the reason God tells us not to judge is that we do not know the raw material that other people are struggling with.

Rather than actively love our neighbor, we unselfishly allow him to live whatever way he wants to, even if his life choices are self-destructive.  Had Lewis lived today, I think he would have said that the reigning virtue is not unselfishness but tolerance—a pseudo-virtue that also manifests itself, not in active charity, but in a negative acquiescence to the "rights" of others.

Yes, Lewis concludes, God may at times treat us harshly, but he has never treated us with contempt.

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.