Quotes About Compassion

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

In the Hebrew mind hesed is always something you do. It is a verb. It is loading wounded people on donkeys, running to greet runaway children, forgiving enormous debts, paying someone who worked an hour as much as the ones who worked all day, giving a party to those who can't pay you back. It is a resonant response to the overwhelming kindness of the God of Exodus 34, who is full of hesed.

Let's let go of the illusion that hesed can be reduced to one English "literal" word and instead see it as a key that can open a door into an entire world—the world of God's own heart, the world of loving

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people.

The Church is composed of people, and people do terrible things and commit sin - it's what the Church has been telling us for two thousand years and continues to tell us, which is why the Church is here and essentially one of the major reasons why people hate it so much.

Never hate your enemies, it affects you judgment.

I'm going to go home and walk my dog and hug my wife, and maybe get a good Mexican meal and a stiff margarita and a full night's sleep, ... And then I'm going to go right back to FEMA and continue to do all I can to help these victims.

St. John of the Cross: "Where there is no love, put love, and you will find love.

She says that Our Lord told her, "if you want to be like Me, then take up your cross with love and joy.

We came to know that love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it.

You can't just sit there hating the wound, Tan, or indulging in bitterness. Whatever you become in life, always ask yourself, am I making more life or am I making more death?

Do not hate them. They do not know they are evil. They are blind. If you hate them, if you kill them in your heart, they will not die. They will rise up again and again within you, and they will kill your heart.

Michael D. O'Brien

Objects being easier to destroy than human beings, it is necessary at times to turn human beings into objects.

The majority of men are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others. Terribly objective sometimes. But the real task is, in fact, to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.'

Charity does not batter down the gates of a wall in the name of love or in the name of a unity that does not yet exist.

Koristiti se drugim ljudskim bi?em kao objektom,?ak i u privatnosti vlastitih misli,zna?i poniziti bi?e te osobe. To zna?i dehumanizirati i samoga sebe i drugoga.

a world populated by selfish people can never know peace.

For the first time in his life he understood that he was like all men, and all were like him. They too were called to love, and they too feared love. Germans, Russians, and Poles, Gentiles and Jews, good men and bad, rich and poor—all clinging to their weapons of defense, all dwelling in terror of absolute nakedness.

I began to find it more important to forgive my enemy on the day I found out that I am my enemy.

To love mankind merely in the abstract", he once said, "is one face of a single coin, and on its other side is hatred of mankind in the abstract. To love in truth is to serve the suffering person before you, and to do what you can to assist him.

Kakva bi utjeha bila imati vlastite organske prijatelje i brinuti se za njih u ovomu usamljenom svemiru. Poput ljudi, oni su kombinacija trnja i zvijezda.

My friend, I thank you for weeping over my painting. I have waited more than fifty years for such a compliment. I painted it when I was as young as you, during a period of darkness, a time when I believed there was no love in the world. From then on I could paint nothing. God speed you on your journey. There is love in the world. You will find it.