Quotes About Compassion

Michael Thomas Ford

When people hurt us, the best thing to do isn't to ask why they did it but to remind ourselves that it wasn't our fault.

There's not much point to being alive if you don't do what you can to make life better for someone else, is there?

Just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's, that doesn't mean it doesn't suck.

I asked the doc, and he said that when people hurt us, the best thing to do isn't to ask why they did it but to remind ourselves that it wasn't our fault.

And just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's, that doesn't mean it doesn't suck. You can't compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn't work. What might look like the perfect life—or even an okay life—to you might not be so okay for the person living it. God

And just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's, that doesn't mean it doesn't suck. You can't compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn't work. What might look like the perfect life—or even an okay life—to you might not be so okay for the person living it.

How come someone always saves the people who try to kill themselves and then makes them tell everyone how sorry they are for ruining their evenings? I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something. But I'm not going to. I don't have anything to apologize for. They're the ones who screwed everything up. Not me. I didn't ask to be saved.

And just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's, that doesn't mean it doesn't suck. You can't compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn't work. What might look like the perfect life—or even an okay life—to you might not be so okay for the person living it.

It may be that it is not given to us to know when we are angels. We may only be given to know when others are. This may be one of the reasons we need each other so.

I am continually amazed at the enormous compliment God gives us in hearing our prayers. It's simply astounds me that the greatest being in the universe wants us involved in placing his power where it's most needed. We have a solemn duty to apply that power and blessing others by offering heartfelt words to God in prayer on behalf of those who have needs.

Far from being a way to achieve success, ease, and comfort, Christianity calls us to live a life that forgets self and focuses on being God's instrument to show his love to others.

There is nothing that the nearness of Jesus will not cure.

Broken relationships of any kind are most always the product of one person dehumanizing another, of a failure to regard others as precious souls made in God's image and in need of God's love.

His son-in-law and daughter hoped—they were even confident—that they could speak to DJT's better self, or at least balance Republican needs with progressive rationality, compassion, and good works.

People are far too quick to judge others, especially when they don't have the full facts. --from the book For Reasons Unknown

there are no devils. Inhumanity is the real evil

Agape love is the decision to keep loving and seeking the best for someone even when we don't feel like it, even when that person sins against us.

war alone is not the answer. We must also fight for the hearts and minds of those who would do us harm.

How we relate to God is generally how we relate to others.

And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you . . ." —Leviticus 19:33-34

Home is not where you live, but where they understand you." —Christian Morgenstern "Call

Anyone who never met a man he didn't like just isn't trying hard enough.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.