Quotes About Compassion

You see, the key to helping other people out of them loneliness is nothing more difficult than good old-fashioned perseverance. It's not always easy, me know that, but you've got to be willing to keep doors open, to carry on trying even if it doesn't look like it's working. You've got to refuse to give up on people, even if them giving up on themselves.

The best way is to say that as a Christian for me the essence of Christian faith is that you treat others as if you wish to be treated.

Doesn't matter whether it's a teen girl who's pregnant, hasn't told her parents, or an elderly couple dealing with one of them being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Those are real people to me. Those are the people I dealt with every single day.

The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance.

Shall we side with those who scorn us, or choose our own path, to protect the innocent from those who would exploit and corrupt them?

And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean.

And so must learn to love with our mouths and voices, as well as with our eyes, flesh, heart, brains, and with everything we have, right down to our toenails. There is not anything about us that cannot love, and that is not called to love, and that is not destined to be turned, conformed, and reduced to pure love. It ...is the priceless deposit left by the burning away of selfishness.

hate makes you a prisoner, not just of them but of yourself.

my heart clenched in my chest with a desperate love for this man who had been the hero of my life but who now was so confused he was incapable of seeing who or what was good for him

Hellboy, to be other than human does not necessarily mean to be less. Remember that, remember me.

Treat others as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming." Goethe "No one needs love more than the person we find difficult to like." Mike Moore

Those who unlock your compassion are those to whom you've been assigned.

Whatever you have been given is what someone needs.....

Faith is the manifestation of courage, confidence, kindness, compassion, foregiveness and humility combined.

The challenge is that if it's not good enough for the future kingdom of God, it's not good enough for the present. So when we see someone sick, we pray that God would heal them; when we see someone outside the kingdom, we invite them in; when we see someone in pain, we do all that we can to wipe the tears from their eyes.

We are all on this journey of life together, each given certain gifts to make this world a better place and to help make one another's burdens a little lighter along the way.

Remember the hours after September 11 when we came together as one. . . . It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.

Meanwhile, the residents of the 138,000 damaged buildings continued to swelter and suffer. Local Miamians, as well as citizens from Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, attempted to drive bottled water, food, clothes, and other supplies into the stricken area. They were successful during the first few hours; but they were shut down by the end of the first day. The same bureaucrats who were giving mixed signals to Washington seemed to prefer organized suffering to disorganized relief.

Sometimes it's easy to walk by because we know we can't change someone's whole life in a single afternoon. But what we fail to realize it that simple kindness can go a long way toward encouraging someone who is stuck in a desolate place.

You'll never scare anyone into heaven... Telling someone who is suffering deeply that he's going to suffer more is probably a waste of breath. Its like warning someone who is already starving that they're about to get really hungry. But tell him of the restaurant that serves heaping meals to all who come no matter where they're from or what they look like & he's more likely to listen.

Jesus did thunder warnings of suffering & condemnation, but primarily to those who were convinced they were healthy & in no need of Him. To the weak, diseased, hungry & sin-bound, He had another message. "Come to me, all you who are weary & burdened...

Remember that the poor are people with names," writes Bryant Myers, author of Walking with the Poor. "[They are] people with whom and among whom God has been working before we even knew they were there.

Something critical is missing in places that care for broken and needy people if the only people there are also broken and needy.

Werent those well-intentioned speakers condemning the broken for being broken?