Quotes About Compassion

They say love is blind, but it's not. Infatuation is blind. Emotional neediness is blind. Love sees the fault, it just sees beyond it as well. ~Kimberly Rossi's Diary

One cannot understand the power of grace until one has needed it. Or given it.

It's like they say, holding on to anger is like swallowing poison and hoping someone else will die.

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest.

That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by myself. She knew me through and through. She had eyes in the back of her heart.

they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.

Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.

Kindness may look for something in return, but that doesn't make it any less kind.

The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth.

Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

there is no path to peace, but peace itself is the path.

If pain were all that mattered, it would be as important to protect the rabbits from the foxes as to protect the Jews from the Nazis.

I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman.

Ted Valentine got up from his chair and walked over to me. He stuck out his hand and said, "I'm horribly sorry.

A man does not know whose hands will stroke from him the last bubbles of his life. That alone should make him kinder to strangers.

Precisely because she had tended and pitied, the desolation is hers as well.

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God has decreed it so, that where tenderness of heart is, there mercy shall follow...

Christ came down from heaven, and emptied himself of majesty in tender love to souls; shall we not come down from our high conceits to do any poor soul good? Shall man be proud after God hath been humble?

Some think it strength of grace to endure nothing in the weaker, whereas the strongest are readiest to bear with the infirmities of the weak.

Christ came down from heaven and emptied himself of majesty in tender love to souls. Shall we not come down from our high conceits to do any poor soul good? Shall man be proud after God has been humble?

Sometimes a Christian has such confused thoughts that he can say nothing but, as a child, cries, `O Father', not able to express what he needs, like Moses at the Red Sea. These stirrings of spirit touch the heart of God and melt him into compassion towards us, when they come from the Spirit of adoption, and from a striving to be better.