Quotes About Compassion

If God had bid you give them all your estates to own them, or lay down your lives to save them, sure you would have refused, when you will not bestow a little breath to save them? Is not the soul of a husband, or wife, or child, or neighbour, worth a few words? It is worth this, or it is worth nothing. . . . If you did know their misery, you would now do more to bring them out of hell (409). (III.XIII)

They showed him in a thousand ways they wanted to make him part of their club, but ... what was their club for? That was half the problem: they were trying to be so nice. Teddy Kennedy sent a shrink up to Wilmington, for the boys ... Kennedys knew about loss.

Writing is the place where I can be as bold and compassionate and wise as I choose.

They encouraged me to always look for the good in people instead of assuming the worst and trying to find fault.

It's so much better, where possible, to try and forgive offenders and give them a second chance, just like my mother and father did so often with me as a child.

We call this the spirit of Ubuntu, that profound African sense that we are human only through the humanity of other human beings.

We owe our freedom to extraordinary people,' he told the assembled crowd. 'The bad, the evil, doesn't have the last word. It is ultimately goodness and laughter and joy and caring and compassion.

En lo posible, es mejor tratar de perdonar a los transgresores y darles una segunda oportunidad, tal como lo hicieron tantas veces mis padres conmigo cuando era niño.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

Be good to the child and he will come to you tomorrow. - Unknown

Hardly last and supremely paramount, you deserve forgiveness, your own and the children's, for your inevitable moments of moodiness and impatience, for your mistakes and missteps, and for all that is part of the human condition that makes children and their behaviors forgivable.

The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.

Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.

When we criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right everytime.

Choose being kind over being right and you'll be right every time.

Even though we often mess up, most of us are doing the best that we know how with the circumstances that surround us.

I'm merely talking about learning to be less bothered by the actions of people.

Your heart, the compassionate part of you, knows that it's impossible to feel better at the expense of someone else.

If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.

How can I continue to live, he shouted at high scream under the nave of his encompassing skull, if people are going to continue to carry bundles of pain on top of their heads like Haitian laundresses, then fling the bundles at random into the face of any bright stroller who happened to be passing by?

He calls us to do this by being leaders and servants in the ultimate cause of displaying God's glory and bearing the fruit of God's love in real relationships.

Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.

A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind.