Quotes About Compassion

detach with love Some family members practice detaching with love, a concept promoted by Al-Anon,

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

34You shall treat the alien who resides with you no differently than the natives born among you; you shall love the alien as yourself; for you too were once aliens in the land of Egypt. I, the LORD, am your God.

If we are able to enter the church day and night and implore God to hear our prayers, how careful we should be to hear and grant the petitions of our neighbor in need. — St. John the Almoner

12For I will forgive their evildoing and remember their sins no more.

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta It is a great poverty to decide that a child must die so that you might live as you wish. — Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love you. I ask pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love you.

Love that cares, listens.

There is no love which does not become help.

We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

And he wanted more than anything else, deeply and compassionately, to be of help; and he could be of help in this age, and was of help, because artist and philosopher as well as theologian, he cared for culture as well as for Christ.6

The gratitude of those who receive help is first and always gratitude for love and only afterwards gratitude for help.

Tugas pertama mencintai adalah mendengar.

The first duty of love is to listen.

It is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link...He who loves understands, and he who understands loves. One who feels understood feels loved, and one who feels loved feels sure of being understood.

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Negentiende-eeuws concept: de caritasgedachte. Rijken moeten da armen helpen met giften - waarbij de armen wel arm dienen te blijven; hulp beperkt zich tot het leningen van materiële nood, sociale emancipatie blijft buiten beschouwing. Een caritatief denken - och god, die arme mensen - herdefinieert sociale problemen als armoedeproblemen.

Of its persistent, artless strain: Naught so can soothe a soul's own pain, As making glad another soul!

When you start treating people like people, they become people.

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

Politics is not about power.

Politics is not about money.

To bear ill-feelings torwards someone else is more damaging to the bearer than the recipient. For your own sake forgive quickly and freely.