Quotes About Compassion

There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.

It's not our ability to get forgiveness that saves us. It's out ability to grant forgiveness.

Humanization and coming to understand somebody as a human being is about as good a kind of forgiveness as you can get, I think.

The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.

Forgiveness is healing. Especially forgiving yourself

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.

The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.

Forgiveness is like a great act of compassion. That it was done not because someone deserved it, but because they needed it.

If you want to be forgiven, you have to extend forgiveness, even to people who aren't smart enough to ask for it.

There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.

She eventually forgave him, because she understood him.

The most beautiful form of compromise is forgiveness.

From speaking with my mother I learned that forgiveness is a process that begins with the choice to end your own suffering.

Forgiveness indeed heals memories

Forgiveness in the heart comes about when the walls of separation in the mind fall.

Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness.

God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.

The fragrance of the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

How shall I love the sin yet keep the sense And love the offender yet detest the offence?

His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

You're looking at the face of a black man who hates nobody.

If one by one we counted people outFor the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.

Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.