Quotes About Compassion

it's always a good time to change your mind when to do so will widen your heart.

If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star. ... And as elephants parade holding each elephant's tail, but if one wanders the circus won't find the park, I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty to know what occurs but not recognize the fact.

He was able to love them again, but he loved them now in a wiser way, knowing their weakness.

The first place to look for Christ is in Hell.

The characteristic place to find a Christian is among his very enemies.

The Church must be free to be poor in order to minister among the poor.

Acceptance of another person is acceptance of the other as he is, without entailing any demands that he change in any empirical way. This boy is an addict, and while I would rejoice if he were freed from this affliction, that would not change or increase my acceptance of him as a person. And though I am not an addict, that makes me no better nor any worse than he. I am not his judge. I am just his friend.

If you want to do something, the most practical thing I can tell you is: weep. First of all, care enough to weep.

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.

persevering intercessor is characterized by the ability to see and internalize how God desires to bless. He or she is also an advocate for the ones who stand in need of this blessing.

Shame isn't bad, her voice from somewhere else insists. Nor the humility that is its gift.

But she didn't. Didn't because she couldn't. None of those people had in any way harmed her or her family. And had she tried to hurt one of them, God would have somehow intervened.

Before you know it, if you're not careful, you can get to feeling sorry for everybody and there's nobody left to hate.

És nem lehetne ez a te igazságod is? Szeretném, ha a tied lenne. Szeretném, hogy egészen megismerj. – (…) A te igazad nem lehet az enyém.

If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude

Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to control the appetites, and to smooth the asperities of man; to make us compassionate and kind, and forgiving one to another; to make us good husbands, good fathers, good friends; and to render us active and useful in the discharge of the relative social and civil duties?

God Almighty has set before me two Great Objects: the supression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners.

What we believe determines how we live. Men who sincerely believed that what they were doing was right have perpetrated many of the most hideous crimes against humanity.

we know that our Sovereign is "Long suffering, and easy to be entreated;" more ready to grant, than we to ask, forgiveness.

Never forget that it is not a pneumonia, but a pneumonic man who is your patient.

"Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs."