Quotes About Compassion

You fail because you are human.

Judging a man is easy. Compassion is hard.

intentions in the world, cannot fix what is wrong

A hero sometimes faces danger," I said. "Like a dragon-slayer or a nurse in a jungle hospital. But don't you think a hero might also be a person who does what no one else wants to do?

Feelings are everywhere—be gentle. —J. Masai

No one is too far away to be cared for, or to care.

If a man wishes to guide the people in his house the right way, he must not grow angry at them. For anger does not only make one's soul impure; it transfers impurity to the souls of those with whom one is angry.

When you spread forth your hands, I hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I no longer listen; your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow. Is that too little?

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.

If you could not picture what people endured, how could you figure out what drove them to crime?

The woman crawled on the earth, took hold of his boot and pleaded for mercy. But the soldier took the boy and hit him with his head against the wall, once, twice, smashed him against the wall.

The tears of the red, yellow, black, brown and white man are all the same.

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

We starve the rats, creosote the ticks, swat the flies, step on the cockroaches and poison the scales. Yet when these pests appear in human form we go paralytic.

The only equipment lack in the modern hospital? Somebody to meet you at the entrance with a handshake!

When Schrank approached Roosevelt, a quick-thinking bystander deflected the gunman's hand and probably saved the ex-president's life. After the incident, the crowd attempted to lynch Schrank, but Roosevelt calmed the mob. He yelled, "Don't hurt the poor creature!" as police hauled Schrank away.

Forgive your child and yourself nightly. You didn't ask to live with the effects of ADHD any more than did your child.

This is not a contest with your child. The winner is not the one with more points. The winner is the one whose child still loves them when they graduate from high school.

But gradually we learn something very precious under the tutelage of these wounds. We learn a compassion for others that replaces judging, self-loathing, and the compulsion to find someone to blame. We learn a reverent joy before our wounds that replaces the condemnation of and comparison of ourselves with others that used to fuel our anxiety. We learn that the consummation of self-esteem is self-forgetful abandonment to the Silence of God that gives birth to loving service of all who struggle.

communities come together in the face of conflict and disagreement.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

God does not need our good works, but our neighbor does.