Quotes About Compassion

quienes le trataban de forma hostil lo hacían debido a su propia debilidad.

quick to comfort and advise, slow to command or punish.

Perot's father did not know what civil rights were: this was how you treated other human beings.

la piedad de sus enemigos era la peor de las humillaciones.

going to put something on your arm to make it better. Try to keep still, will you?' Minnie nodded. Caris poured a little of the warm wine on to Minnie's wrist, where the burn was least bad. The child flinched, but did not try to snatch

Every man who ever robbed or raped or murdered had a mother, and many had wives who loved them and children who needed them. But they killed other women's husbands, and sold other men's children into slavery, and took other people's life savings to spend in alehouses and brothels. They must be punished.

Jesús le dijo: Tampoco yo te condeno; vete, y no peques más».

It was ten years since Gwenda had picked Skip out of a litter of mongrel puppies, on the floor of Caris's bedroom in the wool merchant's big house, the day Caris's mother died.

Better to suffer evil than stand by and do nothing.

Même les gens les plus impitoyables ont parfois des scrupules.

Matar a un ruiseñor

Archdeacon Peter's face was like stone. He was the worst kind of Christian, Philip realized: he embraced all of the negatives, enforced every proscription, insisted on all forms of denial, and demanded strict punishment for every offense; yet he ignored all the compassion of Christianity, denied its mercy, flagrantly disobeyed its ethic of love, and openly flouted the gentle laws of Jesus.

She had never experienced a passion that had changed her life, unless it had been the drive to make the world a better place.

No se puede amar a la humanidad. Solo se puede amar a las personas. GRAHAM GREENE

But you need love," he said. She groaned inwardly.

got three more sons." "Then they're fools, whoever they are," said Ragna. "The loss of a child is a terrible grief to a mother, and it makes no difference how many more you may have." Tears fell on Ellen's wind-reddened cheeks, and she reached out a hand. Ragna took it and squeezed

He had to learn that those who treated him in a hostile way did so out of weakness. He saw the hostility and reacted angrily, instead of seeing the weakness and givin reassurance

Nuestra fe habla de redención y piedad, no de guardarse las cosas dentro y castigar a los demás.

Abbot Peter had come in to show him the way. Unarmed and defenseless, the abbot had instantly stopped the bloodshed, with nothing but the authority of his Church and the force of his goodness. That scene had inspired Philip all his life.

But he had no wish to win an argument with his son. He just wanted the boy to know the truth.

abrazaba cualquier causa perdida que apareciera en las noticias, desde el maltrato a los animales hasta el desarme nuclear.

Might there come a time when people of different faiths did not kill one another?

Ethel suspiró. ¿Por qué lo estaba postergando? —Me he quedado encinta —dijo. —Ay, no… ¡Serás desvergonzada! Ethel intentó contener las lágrimas. Había esperado recibir compasión, no condena.

Hacía que le dieran ganas de echarse a llorar por su país.