Quotes About Compassion

Don't hurt someone who cares about you like that. You're not the only person in the world who's ever been hurt. Don't be cruel. Don't go breaking someone else's heart in the hope that you'll feel better. Becaues you won't.

In the dimly lit basement hall of Saints Peter and Paul's Soup Kitchen, in the back alleys behind the bus station, in the urine-scented wards of the state mental hospital, I saw, firsthand, that it was possible to lose everything and still go on.

You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none

What will bring us into line with His compassion and send us joyfully on His mission? Simply this: to understand that we are no better than anyone else—no less deserving of His wrath and no more deserving of His kindness. As it demonstrates the mercy of God, the cross humbles our hearts and fills them with the same compassion and grace that took His Son to Calvary.

She wanted the best for her enemy, rather than hoping for the worst. This is remarkable. How could she do this? Because presumably, in the face of her emptiness and the sadness of being separated from her family, she had turned time and time again to her loving God and His promises.

His hair was leaving him as fast as his compassion had, so he grew some muttonchop whiskers to take your mind off his higher vacancy factor.

I suppose, too, that the moment when a man hears that a girl's fiance has died only that day is the last moment that that man should ever begin to fall in love with her, but I'm afraid that's just how it was. The emotions are no respecters of the niceties, the proprieties and decencies of this life...

Foster always said that education was very important, but that it didn't really matter, because intelligence was more important than that, and that even intelligence didn't count for so much, that wisdom was far more important still. He said he had no idea in the world whether you had education or intelligence or wisdom and that it couldn't matter less, a blind man could see that you had a good heart, and the good heart was all that mattered in this world.

In all, the crew of the St Laurent picked up and took to safety over eight hundred survivors, an astonishing feat almost without parallel in the lifesaving annals of the sea, almost enough to make one forget, if even only for a moment, the barbed wire and the thousand men who died. Almost, but not quite.

Foster always said that education was very important, but that it didn't really matter, because intelligence was more important than that, and that even intelligence didn't count for so much, that wisdom was far more important still. He said he had no idea in the world whether you had education or intelligence or wisdom and that it couldn't matter less, a blind man could see that you had a good heart, and the good heart was all that mattered in this world.

All of us are better when we're loved.

Witnessing the pain of others is the very least you can do in this world. It's how you know that when your own turn comes, someone will be there with you.

The students [of the 60s] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents conspicuous consumption.

All their lives they've said how Folks that don't Work should Starve. Now they can't work but they ain't ready for what they been wishing on the shiftless of all races.

Once she stopped to pluck a pink rhododendron flower that was just coming into bloom and took it back to the ward with her, twirling it in her hands.

Toda crença é respeitável, quando sincera e conducente à prática do bem. Condenáveis são as crenças que conduzam ao mal.

3. Toda a moral de Jesus se resume na caridade e na humildade, isto é, nas duas virtudes contrárias ao egoísmo e ao orgulho.

Queridos amigos; todos los días oigo decir entre vosotros: "Soy pobre, no puedo hacer caridad"; y veo también que os falta la indulgencia para vuestros semejantes; nada les perdonáis, y os constituís en jueces, a menudo severos, sin preguntaros si estaríais satisfechos de que hicieran otro tanto con vosotros. ¿Acaso la indulgencia no es también caridad? Los que sólo podéis hacer la caridad indulgente, hacedla al menos, pero hacedla con grandeza.

La caridad y la fraternidad no se decretan con leyes; si no están en el corazón, el egoísmo las ahogará siempre; hacérselas penetrar, es obra del Espiritismo.

os princípios da verdadeira caridade, que são: a benevolência, a indulgência, a abnegação e o devotamento.

Cristo vino y dijo: Volved bien por mal. Dijo más: "No os resistáis al mal que os quieran hacer; "sí os hieren en una mejilla presentadles la otra".

Mientras que una gota de sangre humana se derrame en la tierra por la mano de los hombres, el verdadero reino de Dios aún no habrá llegado, reino de paz y de amor que debe para siempre jamás desterrar de vuestro globo la animosidad, la discordia y la guerra.

perdonar las ofensas es reconocer que uno se vuelve mejor. Perdonad, pues, amigos míos, a fin de que Dios os perdone, porque sois duros, exigentes, inflexibles, y si además tenéis rigor por una ligera ofensa, ¿cómo queréis que Dios olvide, cuando todos los días tenéis gran necesidad de indulgencia?

Si Dios, en sus designios, os ha hecho nacer en un centro que hayáis podido desarrollar vuestra inteligencia, es que quiere que hagáis uso de ella para bien de todos, porque es una misión que os da, poniendo en vuestras manos el instrumento con cuya ayuda podéis desarrollar, cuando venga el caso, las inteligencias atrasadas y conducirlas a Dios.