Quotes About Compassion

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.

She took his hand and kissed it fervently. "I can never thank you enough for all you have given me. You snatched me from the dark pit of despair, of horror, and you set me here in the sunshine.

Plus l'offenseur m'est cher, plus je ressens l'injure.

You see, in this world, there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.

The joy of giving can uplift the saddened heart.

Lloraba porque no tenía zapatos hasta que conocí a un hombre que no tenía pies»?

lo que el mundo actualmente necesita es una inyección de la clase de sabiduría que las mujeres tienen

She felt the press of friendly hands, the murmur of friendly voices. No one minded. Everyone understood. As

Nobody knows what to do when there's a tragedy. Nobody practices for it.

Conner thought he understood how pride could back up in somebody, get turned around and come out as meanness. But that didn't make it any easier to put up with.

A people, Dr Alison had said, should be judged by the way they treated those weaker than themselves.

Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy--in fact, the opposite.

Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.

When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't need material wealth. The most loving communities are often the poorest. If our own life is luxurious and wasteful, we can't approach poor people. If we love people, we want to identify with them and share with them.

Jesus is the starving, the parched, the prisoner, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the dying. Jesus is the oppressed, the poor. To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.

We have to remind ourselves constantly that we are not saviours. We are simply a tiny sign, among thousands of others, that love is possible, that the world is not condemned to a struggle between oppressors and oppressed, that class and racial warfare is not inevitable.

People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.

It is only when we stand up, with all our failings and sufferings, and try to support others rather than withdraw into ourselves, that we can fully live the life of community.

Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.

A community that is growing rich and seeks only to defend its goods and its reputation is dying. It has ceased to grow in love. A community is alive when it is poor and its members feel they have to work together and remain united, if only to ensure that they can all eat tomorrow!

But let us not put our sights too high. We do not have to be saviours of the world! We are simply human beings, enfolded in weakness and in hope, called together to change our world one heart at a time. (163)

A growing community must integrate three elements: a life of silent prayer, a life of service and above all of listening to the poor, and a community life through which all its members can grow in their own gift.