Quotes About Compassion

He is conscious of the past and present injustices, but he knows that real remedies are to be found in contemporary Christian compassion, and not in compensatory justice.

We could not learn love in the abstract any more than we could learn patience and the other cardinal virtues. Just as we cannot know the "fellowship of his sufferings" without suffering, we also come to know real fellowship with our fellowmen only by serving them.

He did not let yesterday hold tomorrow hostage. There was a willingness on his part to forget. Forgetting facilitates the generosity that springs from Christlike charity.

Perhaps our difficulties with receiving justified reproof stem from out thinking of love as being all sweetness. Love surely includes sweetness. But love must sometimes be tough love, sinew as well as sweetness. So it is with loving communication, also.

When we "pass by" others and "notice them not," a degree of deprivation occurs. (Mormon 8:39.)

The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!

Most omissions occur because we fail to get outside ourselves. We are so busy checking on our own temperatures that we do not notice the burning fevers of others even when we could offer them some of the needed remedies, such as encouragement, kindness, and commendation. The hands that hang down and most need to be lifted up belong to those too discouraged even to reach out anymore.

El orgullo del hermano mayor detesta la debilidad y se jacta de la fuerza. El quebrarse por dentro y la desesperación no se valoran, pero sí lucir bien y tener éxito. En Mateo 5, Jesús nos dice que los pobres de espíritu, los que lloran y los que tienen hambre y sed, son bendecidos. El hermano mayor piensa que nunca se supone que sea débil.

Sobre la autocompasión del hermano mayor de la parábola del hijo pródigo: queremos la compasión y la simpatía de las personas más de lo que deseamos ser libres, más de lo que queremos avanzar y dejar atrás nuestras dificultades. Si dejamos de lado nuestra autocompasión, tenemos que enfrentar que somos responsables de nuestras propias vidas.

Compassion compels us to go further in love.

Si le das tus "panes y peces" a Jesús, Él puede y convertirá nuestros humildes dones, incluso las cicatrices de nuestras dolorosas heridas, en una mayor compasión por los demás.

My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There's no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

The way to move out of judgement is to move into gratitude

Suddenly, it seemed to me an eternity since I had last seen Mam, and I cried. "What is wrong with the boy?" the monk asked. "It is his first day out," Dad fumbled. "Cheer up," the monk said to me. "You are becoming a man." "I am hungry," I told him. "That is one way of becoming a man," he concluded.

We are so busy constantly checking our own temperatures, we fail to notice the burning fevers of others.

My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well.

There are few character traits that stand out in this world more than a generous heart.

If you want to win this world to Christ, you are going to have to sit in the smoking section. That is where lost people are found, and if you make them put their cigarette out to hear the message they will be thinking about only one thing: "When can I get another cigarette?

True prayer is joining with God's heart. God's heart is full of love for those who are the lost and least in this world. You cannot draw near to God and remain callous to the hurting.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

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