Quotes About Compassion

Take a note: it usually works better if you wait until I do something stupid before getting mad at me.

Don't make light of any man's pain.

When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was.

If you make my children, make any child, feel bad for who they are, I will teach you why people fear mama grizzlies more than papa grizzlies.

Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear—love did.

She tried to imagine what Charles would do if another man came up to him and said, "You bring me joy.

You cannot look at a person, and say, 'If I could change this or that, if I could pick what I want and discard other things, I could love this one.' Such a love is pale and weak—and doomed to failure.

God help us and keep us from receiving what we deserve

My old pastor liked to say that church is a hospital for the sick, not a mausoleum for the saints.

You cannot sacrifice the world for your children.

There are some things that honest, honorable people don't do to the people they love. They don't propose marriage on TV. They don't bring home small cuddly animals without checking with their spouses first. And they don't tell their ex-husband they love him in front of a crowd that includes their daughter and his current wife right before he goes off to almost certain death. It didn't help that most of us could tell that she wasn't lying.

Stop that , Anna scolded him. You don't need to hurt because I do. But I do , Charles replied, more honestly than he intended.

Have you ever sat around while someone held their breath? For a while, it doesn't bother you, but eventually you start holding your breath with them, willing them to breathe. it's one of those automatic reflexes. (Mercy)

There is something about having someone take care of you, even when you don't need it - maybe especially when you don't need it.

Warren and his boyfriend had put on a Thanksgiving dinner for their friends who didn't have families to go home to. Being gay meant they had a number of friends with no welcoming families. Mary

Suddenly Chelsea's eyes met Anna's from across the table and held them. Icy gray became even more pale, and Chelsea's nostrils flared. "Who hurt you?" she asked, slicing through the two other conversations going on at the table.

She's a good person, but she is a weak person, too. She can't take care of anyone else because she's too busy taking care of herself." I

Some people, me, get a black eye and other people ask "who beat you up?" Other people, Spielman, get a black eye and other people say "where did they bury the other guy?

He sees people—all the way through them—and he likes them anyway.

Making him feel horrible isn't what you want." She paused, considered what she said, then modified it. "Unless it is useful for him to feel horrible, of course. Mostly, though, I've found that isn't productive. Men who are miserable can be unpredictable.

need me to make sure she has enough food or a place to live—that is my privilege, but she doesn't need me to do that. She doesn't need me to keep her safe or to make her a whole person. She doesn't need me to do anything except love her. Which I do.

A friend in danger is not someone who should be deserted. Safety is not always the right path. (Sylvia)

Because I knew that Samuel—my Samuel who was at that very moment dressing in the backseat—would never stand by and watch a human get hurt. He was the only werewolf I knew who cared that much about mundane humans, just because they were mundane humans

Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them.