Quotes About Compassion

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)

It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest. (The Walk - Chapter 19, Page 122

Helping others carries its own rewards, the first of which is a return to humanity.

There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it.

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. That way he can't do anything to you because you're a mile away and you've got his shoes.

Everyone has suffered more than you know.

To not extend forgiveness is to burn the bridge that we ourselves must cross.

I hope you can someday forgive me.' 'I forgive you now.

Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don't believe that frighten me a little.

But more than brave, you have love. And love is brave.

It takes great courage to wear kindness as if one had never been hurt.

You're lucky your mother died,' she said. I didn't like that. 'I'm lucky my mother died?' Between sobs she said, 'Your mother would have stayed if she could. My mother chose to leave me. She's still out there somewhere. I wish she had died instead.' I sat down next to her and put my arm around her. 'I'll never leave you.' She laid her head on my shoulder. 'I know.

The Golden Rule is a two-edged sword. If some of us treated others as we treat ourselves, we would be jailed.

In college I took a social psychology course, something I thought useful for a career in advertising. Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good. Apparently, Angel does.

The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others. --- Charles James's Diary

Sometimes our cruelest acts come not from meaning to do wrong but from not trying hard enough not to.

Some people aren't meant to fight. They're meant to pick up the pieces.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath. Alan Christoffersen's diary

True understanding often opens the door to forgiveness.

People can become so blinded by their own perceived victimhood that they make victims of everyone around them.

In the end, and, if this is, indeed, my end, remember this: Christmas is the story of a Father reaching out to His children. Nothing more. Nothing less.

suppose we as children are selfish by nature, judging our parents in the context not of their worlds and challenges but of our worlds and how they meet our needs. Even as we mature we rarely think of them as having been young like us.