Quotes About Compassion

Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark the room had gotten. And the way you usually act, the things you would have normally done, are like these ghosts that everyone can see but pretends not to.

Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats—let you know if you're off course. But it ain't always possible…

The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Listening intently even for a minute is one of the nicest gifts we can give to another human being.

Stand up for your players. Show them you care on and off the court.

We do not want riches, we want peace and love.

Like, we've been together for a while now, ever since he trapped me in this weird ball prison, I have been forgiving.

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

Never embrace a version of the gospel that doesn't require you to do life with someone who isn't like you.

Everybody needs someone who knows their name, and what's happening in their life So,

When we look after the welfare of others, we promote and participate in God's kingdom work.

You know, I hope you don't judge

Everyone has a story to tell. You just have to listen.

Offer her a hand when she slips, applause when she soars.

A reproach given with great kindness is often well received, whereas when given with sharpness it produces no results. Thus Christ tells us: "Learn of Me, because I am meek and humble of heart.

Meekness disarms the violent.

Look, this boy's been kicked around all his life. You know-living in a slum, his mother dead since he was nine. He spent a year and a half in an orphanage while his father served a jail term for forgery. That's not a very good head start. He's had a pretty terrible sixteen years. I think maybe we owe him a few words. That's all.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.

Great achievement! I learn how to be tolerant when I become the victim of somebody else's spiritual pride [1928].

it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.