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Quotes About Compassion

To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.
~ William Dunbar
Abortion is murder in the womb...A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me.
~ Mother Teresa
Jesus' response to suffering people and to "nobodies" provides a glimpse into the heart of God. God is not the unmoved Absolute, but rather the Loving One who draws near.
~ Philip Yancey
When we hurt, God doesn't always give us lots of words; he gives us the Word; the Word made flesh who is intimately acquainted with our grief and suffering. That's what helps the most.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
God does not keep an itemized account of all your failures.
~ Joseph Prince
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
~ Desmond Tutu
God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.
~ Desmond Tutu
Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.
~ Criss Jami
Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.
~ Andy Stanley
God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
~ Timothy Keller
Eating animals is not our God-given right, but being kind to them is.
~ Tsem Tulku
Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.
~ Erich Fromm
I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us
~ Jim Bakker
God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors and blemishes. But He also sees our value.
~ Max Lucado
The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God's compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.
~ Ramakrishna
And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on
~ Jim Bakker
If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God.
~ Sri Chinmoy
If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Humans have "dominion" over animals. But that "dominion" (radah in Hebrew) does not mean despotism, rather we are set over creation to care for what God has made and to treasure God's own treasures.
~ Andrew Linzey
Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.
~ William Beveridge
He who does not see God in the next person he meets need look no further.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
...the more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees.
~ Meher Baba
Let's do something beautiful for God.
~ Mother Teresa
Some people have special resources inside, and when God blesses you to have more than others, you have a responsibility to use it right
~ Muhammad Ali