Quotes About Compassion

Don't let ignorance win," said Ms. Stevenson. "Let love.

Don't let ignorance win. Let love.

But what really is immorality? And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?

And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?

I read somewhere the other day that love is good as long as it's honest and unselfish and hurts no one.

Don't let ignorance win', said Ms. Stevenson. 'Let love.

there we were sitting moodily on a cold bench saying "I'm sorry" to each other for things we couldn't help.

If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics," Ford said, "then something is the matter with politics.

Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other peoples too; our fear lets us practice valor; we are tense, and tender as well. And among the things we can no longer afford are things we never really wanted anyway...

She held my hand the whole time in our private time,' Graham recalled. 'And she was just so sweet. She is different from the Hillary you see in the media. There is a warm side to her

But here's what grieving people wish others would understand: grief is incredibly, relentlessly lonely. It really makes a huge difference to be reminded that we are not forgotten, that our loss is on the radar of people around us.

Give me the grace to lead the way in having an ambition to serve others out of love for you.

It stops hurting so much when you realize how unconstructive hate is.

A girl who chooses to use good manners is telling the world she believes that other people matter as much as she does. She's saying that life isn't about what one person does for herself but about what people can do together for the common good.

All pain is translatable, from the toothache of a dental assistant in Idaho to natural catastrophes like the floods in China.

Unlike others before him, Oglethorpe felt the disadvantaged could be reclaimed if they were given a fair chance.

meaningful, too, that the recently established Freedmen's Bureau paired impoverished whites and freed people not as cutthroat adversaries, but as the worthy poor. From its inception in 1865, shortly before Lincoln's assassination, the bureau was specifically empowered to extend relief to "all refugees, and all freedmen," black and white.

What if we could learn to see the world from the perspective of other species, both plant and animal, and understand that they, too, deserve the chance to make a life here? ---- The Humane Gardener: Nurturing A Backyard Habitat For Wildlife

The apostle Paul said, "I will very gladly spend and be spent for you" (2 Corinthians 12:15 KJV). That's part of what is involved in ministering to others, whether in a synagogue, a Sunday school class, or a house full of little ones.

And just in case you interpret boundary setting as callous and unloving, I want to be clear: naming my limits doesn't give me permission to walk all over anyone else's boundaries or refuse to be generous. In fact, I'm much more attuned to the boundaries of others now that I'm right with my own. And as for generosity, I'm now generous out of the desire to give rather than out of some fear that I won't be loved if I don't.

God's Love does exactly the same thing. It's an unconditional giving of yourself for another with no strings attached.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

God offers grace and forgiveness for a contrite heart. But society offers cruel consequences and never forgives.

The point is to be compassionately, not cruelly, honest. Tell the person what you have heard that worries you. Allow him to respond. You may be surprised at how much sense his answers make.