Quotes About Compassion

We take out our frustrations on unsuspecting strangers every day, never stopping to acknowledge that these people have hopes and dreams just like we do.

Love is primal. It is comprised of compassion, care, security, and a leap of faith.

A lot of you cared, just not enough.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. —LEO BUSCAGLIA

More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world. —William Barclay

As always in Christian service, he will find his life in losing it. His fears of men will diminish as his loving service to them increases. It is more blessed to give than to receive. Personal blessing comes not by seeking blessing, however, but by becoming a blessing to others.

People wanted to follow these leaders, who cared about them. All three understood what was in the best interest of their audiences. That is how they got to be so loved.

How do you get a human to think you're caring? The obvious way is actually to care.

Así, cuando te enfrentes a un hombre enfadado, muéstrate serio y preocupado; no le grites «¡Venga, amargado!» Cuando una niña parece triste, la empatía implica parecer triste también; no significa decirle alegremente: «¡Anímate!»

When you spent your entire career on the fringes of violence, the dogs helped remind you that you were still human

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way it treats its animals." —MAHATMA GANDHI

We each carry a measure of grace, and we each carry a measure of evil. There is never enough grace to banish the evil, and there is never enough evil to smother the grace.

You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

a pockmarked boy with a scraggy ponytail and four tiny rings in his right ear leaned against the wall of the armory, holding his dog on a leash, a sign hanging from his neck: PLEASE FEEL FREE TO PET MY DOG. IT MAY MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER.

What a miracle, that all we have to do to be beautifully loving creatures is just relax and allow.

So I'm living this life. Maybe, someday, I'll be able to choose another. For now, I can't. What keeps me sane - so to speak - is that I can listen. And you should too. You might think you can ignore people like me. But there are a lot of us. It's in your interest to hear what we're saying.

This is my commandment," Jesus said, putting before us a single ideal, "That you love one another, as I have loved you" (John 15:12). The simplicity and force of this statement take away the breath.

But Jesus felt her yearning, her fragility masked by bravado. He always broke down barriers, never erected them.

On the matter of slavery, he reproached but absolved the South of the ultimate blame: "It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be judged.

We are all being called to help usher in a new way of being for humanity. We are called not only for ourselves but to inspire these changes in others.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.

Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public.