Quotes About Compassion

There are no small lives, there are no small stories, there are no small people.

Why does a rich country like ours blame people who have nothing for its problems?

There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.

Physicians, though they put their patients to much pain, will not destroy their nature, but will raise it up by degrees. Surgeons will pierce and cut but not mutilate. A mother who has a sick and self-willed child will not cast it away for this reason. And shall there be more mercy in the stream than there is in the spring? Shall we think there is more mercy in ourselves than in God, who plants the feeling of mercy in us?

You asked me questions nobody ever asked me before. You knew that I was a murderer two times over, but you treated me like a man...

With ever watchful eyes and bearing scars, visible and invisible, I headed North, full of a hazy notion that life could be lived with dignity, that the personalities of others should not be violated, that men should be able to confront other men without fear or shame, and that if men were lucky in their living on earth they might win some redeeming meaning for the having struggled and suffered here beneath the stars.

Toward no one in the world did he feel any fear now, for he knew that fear was useless; and toward no one in the world did he feel any hate now, for he knew that hate would not help him. Though

Yes, the whites were as miserable as their black victims, I thought. If this country can't find its way to a human path, if it can't inform conduct with a deep sense of life, then all of us, black as well as white, are doing down the same drain...

The cross the preacher had told him about was bloody, not flaming; meek, not militant. It had made him feel awe and wonder, not fear and panic. It had made him want to kneel and cry, but this cross made him want to curse and kill.

If laying down my life could stop the suffering in the world I'd do it. But I don't believe anything can stop it.

Well, I'm not going to flunk this project," Ashley said crossly, "just because Parker's an idiot." Roo promptly frowned. "Where's your compassion? Parker can't help being an idiot.

I thought you'd snap out of it. I thought, with a little time, you'd lighten up and see how it didn't matter!

LOVE is not only an Emotion.....It is the Highest Emotion.

There is more than a little love involved in all of this.

Sometimes the ones the world has no place for are best equipped to show us what it is to live fully and to be truly loved.

Grace was created out of love so that we could be rescued from being nice people and become people who love the world the way Jesus does.

there are always more than two sides to a story, that nobody is ever as bad as people think, and nobody is ever as good as people think.

He talks to people's grievances, but he doesn't seem mad. – Elizabeth Drew

HUGS, another one of the many benefits of not being a nihilistic, psychopathic automaton.

Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up. You're cute when you're worried, she muttered. Your eyebrows get all scrunched together. You are not going to die while I owe you a favor, I said. Why did you take that knife? You would've done the same for me. It was true. I guess we both knew it. Still, I felt like somebody was poking my heart with a cold metal rod.

Hermes gazed up at the stars. 'My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the Internet--

But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.

Grover didn't say anything for awhile. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, Can I have your apple?

Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.