Quotes About Compassion

God says we shouldn't take advantage of the fatherless (Exodus 22:22) and that true religion looks after the fatherless (James 1:27). It's time for the church to flex some real muscle on behalf of the weak and the needy.

We can be the generation that no longer accepts that an accident of latitude determines whether a child lives or dies. But will we be that generation?

God is love and love is evolution's best day

Deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.

You are most humble and gentle when you think that the person you are ministering to is more like you than unlike you. When you have inserted yourself into another category that tends to make you think you have arrived, it is very easy to be judgmental and impatient.

You will treat the weaknesses and failures of others with grace when you humbly admit that you're more like them than unlike them.

When your child wonders about what is right and what is wrong, don't just threaten him with the law of God; woo him with the sweet music of the grace of God. When she is struggling with what

fact is that no one gives grace better than someone who is convinced that he needs it, as well.

Scripture never looks down on the sufferer, it never mocks his pain, it never turns a deaf ear to his cries, and it never condemns him for his struggle. It presents to the sufferer a God who understands, who cares, who invites us to come to him for help, and who promises one day to end all suffering of any kind once and forever.

When you are suffering, you have to force yourself to pay attention to your private conversation, that is, the words you say to yourself that no one else hears.

grace is greater than all of the sin we're grappling with.

I've accepted the fact that I'm going to be a sad man for the rest of my life because I get calls all the time of the saddest things that are happening in the church.

When you forget mercy, you name yourself as righteous and deserving, and you live an entitled and demanding life.

A joyful life of grace toward others grows best in the soil of gratitude.

We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness.

The world we live in is a house of pain, and we cannot live in it without it touching us. You will never be smart enough to escape its grasp. From the violence of childbirth to cut fingers and scraped knees, from sibling mockery and peer rejection to familial brokenness, suffering is part of every phase of human existence. We enter life through suffering's door and we exit life through suffering's door.

Padre de misericordias y Dios de toda consolación, quien nos consuela en todas nuestras tribulaciones, para que también nosotros podamos consolar a los que están sufriendo, por medio de la consolación con que nosotros somos consolados por Dios" (2Co 1:3-4 RVC). No tiene sentido recibir una compasión tan maravillosa y responderle a los demás con dureza e insensibilidad.

when you forget the grace that you've been given, it becomes very easy to respond to the people around you with nongrace.

The appropriateness of my responses to others is directly related to the accuracy of my view of myself, and for that there is grace too.

Theology without love is simply very bad theology.

We would prefer to lob grenades of truth into people's lives rather than lay down our lives for them. But this is exactly what Christ did for us. Can we expect to be called to do anything less?

How often do you see people as obstacles to ministry rather than the objects of it?

The fact is that no one gives grace better than someone who is convinced that he needs it, as well.