Quotes About Compassion

You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney! But it's also the families that you create outside of your family. And you really find out what kind of people you're friends with.

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. -I John 3:18

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. -Galatians 5:14

Love one another and you will be happy. Its as simple and as difficult as that.

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Corinthians

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. -John 4:8

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. -I Corinthians 13:13

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves. -1 Corinthians 13:4-7

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Just rest another minute, Cass. You needed to cry those tears. You've been through a terrible time. Just let me hold you.

Sometimes the villain becomes a victim

Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.

When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.

The world is filled with unreasonable hate. What's wrong with unreasonable love?

The poor you will always have with you,' Jesus said. A warning, Emilio wondered, or an indictment?

We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.

When I've been in my dramatic states, friends who look beyond my spiraling downward are quick (and kind) to remind me of what is good in my life. They tell me the truth. This world is not all about me, nor am I just about to slip off the precipice of sadness. They help me see the blessings in the mess, the beauty underlying the mayhem. And when I have a dramatic friend, I can also offer this same perspective.

We are to be agents of His great upside down Kindgom, where the outcasts are listened to, the broken are given dignity, and those suffering under the weight of sexual exploitation are rescued and healed.

God] occupies all the difficult spaces humanity has endured. While I can't fully reconcile the problem of evil and why so many people have been sexually violated over the centuries, I do know this: Jesus has wept alongside me, and he weeps for his church to rise up valiantly and love the least, the last, and the lost. This is our WE TOO moment, to purposefully suffer alongside the sexually broken.

The church acts most like Jesus when it protects the victimized.

I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)

Taking another life, she had whispered, even a guilty one, should never be easy. If it were, we'd be little more than animals.

I beg your forgiveness, Your Eminence. I would not truly feed your face to the hogs. It might make them sick.