Quotes About Compassion

there was a gentleness to this, a long opening that seemed to join us in the saddest hour.

We all tip our lonely hats in one un-lonely sound.

It means, if you're alone, when love is all around, We all tip our lonely hats in one un-lonely sound.

It means, if you're alone, when love is all around, We all tip our lonely hates in one un-lonely sound.

It is what we do in order to care for things, make them ourselves, our elders, our beloveds, our unborn. But perhaps that is a lazy kind of love. Why can't I just love the flowers for being a flower? How many flowers have I yanked to puppet as if it was easy for the world to make flowers?

What is it to go to a We from an I ?

Great beauty and youth capture our attention, excite a deep pleasure; however, why shouldn't our souls gaze at a countenance over which the years have passed? Isn't there a story there, one unknown, full of pain or beauty, which pours its reflection into the features, a story we can read with some compassion or at least get a slight hint of its meaning? The young point toward the future; the old tell of a past.

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

Unless man is commited to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labours in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality

When we shift our emphasis from behavior to character, people evaluate choices differently. Instead of asking whether this behavior will achieve the results they want, they take action because it is the right thing to do. In the poignant words of one Holocaust rescuer, "It's like saving somebody who is drowning. You don't ask them what God they pray too. You just go and save them.

Jesus consistently put people before rules.

Our desire for certainty, our need to be right, and our tendency to miss the point have conspired to keep Christians from experiencing unity, and instead have led to endless divisions within the Christian faith.

And when we feel forsaken, hopeless, and in despair, we pray to one who walked this path before us.

God's most common way of answering prayers is through people. But for that to work, Christians must pay attention and listen, we must put ourselves in a position to see others' needs, and we must respond when God calls.

you have a Father who knit you together in your mother's womb, who loves you more than you can possibly imagine, who walks with you, cares for you,

and is relentless in his love and mercy and grace toward you.

God's love, mercy, and kindness are offered to us all. He showed us grace.

Grace has power. When you give kindness, compassion, goodness, and love to someone who does not deserve it, that graceful act has the power to change hearts, heal broken

Sometimes God asks us to be with people we don't want to be with, to go to places we don't want to go to, and to do things we don't want to do.

When I think of this story, I can't help but think of the many immigrants, both legal and illegal, who flee to the United States either in fear for their lives in their home country, or in hopes of a better future. Jesus was a child taken into Egypt as an alien, a refugee.

seriousness of our sin, the costliness of our forgiveness, and the magnitude of his love.

It's not until she sits up and wipes her eyes that I realize she's crying. My words are like knives; they cut into the people I love. It will be worse if you touch her, I think, a worse lie. But I ignore this thought, shifting down the bench to put my arm around her - my daughter - and as I do, she weeps openly, pressing her face against my damp shirt.

What he had said to me a moment ago was true. I hadn't been listening to him, not for years. I'd wanted him to be better for so long that I had stopped hearing him tell me he was sick. For the first time I saw him now as a man, not a member of a family. A separate person, who had been trying as hard as he could for most of his life simply to get by.

The movement's other great achievement is this. Among its supporters, it kept alive a tradition, a way of seeing the world, a human capacity for outrage at pain inflicted on another human being, no matter whether that pain is inflicted on someone of another color, in another country, at another end of the earth.