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Quotes About Compassion

To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
~ D. A. Carson
Only God knows hearts, and so only He can say, in truth, "I know how you feel."
~ Henry B. Eyring
The fastest way to know God is to serve the God in someone else.
~ Peter Reinhart
The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
~ Abraham Lincoln
We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.
~ Ali MacGraw
He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!
~ Arthur Miller
We can still see God in other people and do our best to help them find their own grace. So that's what I strive to do and pray to do every day.
~ Barack Obama
It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.
~ Benjamin Haydon
I'm so grateful that God allowed me to go through that because it's made me.
~ Betty Williams
God forgives us. ... Who am I not to forgive?
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I realised that God has placed Christians everywhere, to support each other, to support the needy in those areas, and that is the thing that I find is a great plus.
~ Cliff Richard
People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.
~ Tab Hunter
I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.
~ Theodore Bikel
See to whom Jesus is drawing near, three kinds of people: to those who make peace with him, to those who are devoted to God, and to those who are kind to their neighbors.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Rare benevolence, the minister of God.
~ Thomas Carlyle
God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself.
~ Timothy Keller
God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.
~ Timothy Keller
Gifts are abilities God gives us to meet the needs of others in Christ's name.
~ Timothy Keller
My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians.
~ Tony Campolo
Which religion gives the greatest joy to God? That which inspires human beings to practice Ahimsa and compassion to all creatures.
~ Vallabha Acharya
You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.
~ Vance Havner