Quotes About Compassion

Let your gentleness be evident to all" (Philippians 4:5).

Grace given when it feels least deserved is the only antidote for bitter rot. I

Let your past rejection experiences work for you instead of against you by allowing them to help you sense the possible pain behind other people's reactions.

Most people are walking around with way more hurts from their past than we can ever imagine. Pretty much everyone has at some point been deeply hurt by someone. That's your "me too.

The gravity of living in a sin-soaked world will always try to hold us back from living loved.

this life is not about me. It's about joining hands with Jesus to fulfill whatever tasks He sets before me and to share His love with all He brings my way.

Never let loyalty and kindness leave you! Tie them around your neck as a reminder. Write them deep within your heart. Then you will find favor with both God and people, and you will earn a good reputation. (vv. 3 – 4 NLT)

And in that you will find the why. Why did this happen? Because there's someone else in the world who would drown in their own tears for not seeing yours.

Choosing a gentle reply doesn't mean you're weak; it actually means you possess a rare and godly strength.

My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. (John 15:9 – 12)

Psalm 103:8 The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.

Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning;

If so, I guarantee when the enemy sees us he shakes with fear. He isn't scared of the judgmental soul shellacked with a fake sense of perfection. But the compassionate soul who has hurt deeply and come out loving? Yes, she is one of the superstars of God's grand story, and the one you want near you in the battles of life.

And in that you will finally find the why. Why did this happen? Because there's someone else in the world who would drown in their own tears if not for seeing yours. And when you make one other human simply see they aren't alone, you make the world a better place.

I can't expect a perfection in others I'm not even capable of living out myself.

had the wrong notion that to be a Christian requires that we believe the best no matter what. That it's unkind to draw boundaries. That it's noble and commendable to stay in a relationship no matter what. I no longer believe that.

People who care more about being right than ending right prove just how wrong they were all along. Lord, let me end this the right way.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. (2 Corinthians 1:3–4)

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him.

Not every lost soul is a lost cause

Monks realize well that when the consciousness of one person is raised, the whole of humanity is raised; when the quality of life of one improves, all improve. Or, to put it in another, more biblical, way, the increased health and vitality of any one cell vitalizes the whole Body of Christ. 38

From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soullessness of men.