Quotes About Compassion

If I want to live my ability to be fully present and compassionate, my ability to be with it all—the joy and the sorrow—I must find the ways, the people, the places, the practices that support me in being all I truly am. I must cultivate ways of being that let me feel the warmth of encouragement against my heart when it is weary.

I want to know what your life is dedicated to. What do you love more than your own happiness or your own pain?

A lot of women ask themselves why they should bring a child into the world? So that it will be hungry, so that it will be cold, so that it will be betrayed and humiliated, so that it will be slaughtered by war or disease? They reject the hope that its hunger will be satisfied, its cold warmed, that loyalty and respect will accompany it through life, that it will be a devote a life to the effort to eliminate war and disease.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part.

I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

You can tell the size of a person by the way he treats people who cannot help him.

Imagine if we applied as much grace to others as we give ourselves & as much law to ourselves as we apply to others.

It's easy to judge, but much more difficult to serve.

Justice could be cruel, and crueler yet necessity, but mercy was the cruelest thing of all.

Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?

This is what love is, he thought. Doing what you don't want to do, because she needs it so much. And it isn't that bad. And it isn't that hard.

Even the devil gives some justice to his victims, when they're beyond all help.

There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.

Im neutral on lying, seeing as how theres times when the truth just hurts people.

War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

There are no villains who doesn't have his reasons.

Jesus never spoke to two people the same way, and neither should we. Every single person is unique and individual and deserves an approach that respects that uniqueness.

Love is "the alpha and the omega of apologetics," in the sense that all we say must come from love, and it must lead to love and to the One who is love—in

Love does not end,it does not become corrupted,it does not wear away,but rather,people's capacity to love.