Quotes About Compassion

The door of mercy is set wide open. The door is not yet locked. The door can be opened. God's heart is full of love. God's heart is full of compassion. Whoever and whatever a person might have been, at midnight or at any time, whenever he returns to God, he will find God willing to receive him, ready to pardon him, and glad to have him at home. All things are ready. Whoever desires to enter can come in.

No interest should weigh on you so much as their eternal interests. No part of them should be as dear to you as that part which will never die.

There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.

She, as no other ever could, reached every corner of his heart. His joy, and his salvation.

Why are so many parsons like this? Must one excuse their defective sensibility towards their fellows because they are engrossed with God?

I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light.

I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.

It's admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so cheerful and well-intentioned that after a while you itch to go off and do some raping and pillaging. Or to kick a cat.

3. Love and fault-finding never go together. The more you love, the less you judge.

Love is a telescope: hatred is a microscope.

My mother and the men believed that being a good man is an art, and being a bad man is a tragedy, for the world as much as for those who depend on the tragic man in question.

Cuidar de mi madre significaba no decir nada que pudiera alterar su frágil optimismo.

Real men take care of their mother's

Even the darkest of villans-can have a hero's heart.

No god should ever be invoked to inflict harm.

That's what love is all about, babe. Forgiveness.

And you know what happens when you fall in love with someone? You want to help that person. You want that person to grow. You want what's best for them.

The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.

The mythic voice rising from literature and art allows us to be humane. We are not humane because of political power, or education, or even religion. We are humane because we recognize the humanity of others. The writer and the artist appeal to that humanity. For that reason, literature and art are the bones of civilization.

I learned how big a difference one person can make, both in the lives of those closest to them, and to many others.

Don't let people suffer! Don't let anyone be hurt! If you can help, then help! What about that is complicated?" Mari demanded. Alain thought about her words. "It is not complicated, but doing it might be…" What was the right word? "Difficult." "Yeah, well, that's me in a nutshell, isn't it?

Jason spoke in a rough voice. "Hating you, hating anybody else, wouldn't make my life any better. My parents think tearing other people down, tearing me down, makes them bigger. But I know it doesn't. It makes them smaller. And I am not going to be like them.

Why am I helping to force other people to live in a way I couldn't stand to live?" The Mage didn't answer, seeming to be sunk in thought, but she didn't know what the answer was, either, and was horrified at having said such a thing.