Quotes About Compassion

Be a real friend to people; it's the only way you can be affected by the feelings of their infirmities and prove your real love for them.

Every friend is different. When you come close to people in friendship, try to know who they are before you attempt to impact their lives.

Love will never cost you anything unless you first become a true friend or have a friendship heart.

Be nice to people. On phone and in-person. Don't wait to know a person before you treat them well; treat them well because you're a good person. That's how true friends live.

Have a good heart towards strangers and new friends.

You're both a stranger and a friend. You're a friend to those who know you and a stranger to those who don't know you yet. So live by the Golden Rule.

21Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Shout for joy, you heavens; rejoice, you earth; burst into song, you mountains! For the LORD comforts his people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones." ISAIAH 49:13

Forgiveness breaks the cycle! It doesn't settle all the questions of blame, justice, or fairness, but it does allow relationships to heal and possibly start over.

I am not all sneers and scathings, you see, I have my gentler side.

Do not look so worried, Anna said, I hated you too a little, we were human beings, after all.

Let your repentance salt my shoe leather, I said presently, and then, as I lately sheathed my blade of anger, so sheath you my blade of love.

When we seek to correct the wrong done to us, we set ourselves up as a judge.

When we seek to correct the wrong done to us, we set ourselves up as a judge. The

We probably don't have to convince you that your spouse isn't perfect. No one is! But mistakes create opportunities for us to extend God's grace. Our willingness to forgive is one of the greatest evidences of Christ within us.

Use your liberty in Christ to set others free, not to assert your own rights.

And then the room went very dark and somehow, despite the chaos that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let it go.

Those people... well, they're not people at all, Bruno

One single syllable of intimacy and the world is put to rights.

He decided to talk to the Hopeless Case

Astonishing how everyone is willing to go abroad to fight for the rights of foreigners while having such little concern for those of their own countrymen at home.

He knew that sometimes people who were sad didn't want to be asked about it; sometimes they'd offer the information themselves and sometimes they wouldn't stop talking about it for months on end, but on this occasion Bruno thought that he should wait before saying anything.

Don't you ever think,' he asked cautiously, 'that it would be better to be a bully than to be bullied? At least that way no one could ever hurt you.' Katarina turned to him in amazement. 'No,' she said definitively, shaking her head. 'No Pieter, I never think that, not for a moment.

He had never felt so ashamed in his life; he had never imagined that he could behave so cruelly. He wondered how a boy who thought he was a good person really could act in such a cowardly way towards a friend.