Quotes About Compassion

A high school English teacher who has been teaching for thirty years recently said to me, "My students today are nice and they're smart, but they can't engage suffering in any way. I try to teach them King Lear, or 'Letter from Birmingham Jail,' and they just don't want to think about real pain.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

In my kind world the dead were out of range And I could not forgive the sad or strange In beast or man.

One must not content oneself with small demands but must rise to the thought that all living creatures have to be redeemed. One must not be trivial and irresponsible in heart, but must strive to make deeds prove one's words.

If we have held back from being an intercessor then it is time that as individuals and as a church we repent and turn our hands, our will, and our hearts to interceding for the redemption and salvation of those who are broken and lost.

Christians as a segment of the general population are ten times more likely to contribute money and resources to the aid of another individual than a non-Christian

Pour vous faire aimer, demandez un service.

How many Christians of the free world visit communist countries and other nations where Christians are persecuted but never ask permission to visit a jail and encourage their brothers and sisters in pain?

We will respond, even in the face of irony and slander, with the sweetness of love. We can afford to take this attitude because good anvils do not fear the blows of many hammers.

Where there is love, it is Jesus that will surely triumph.

These are the last words of Iuliu Maniu, a Christian and the former Prime Minister of Romania, who died in prison: "If the Communists are overthrown in our country, it will be the most holy duty of every Christian to go into the streets and at the risk of his own life defend the Communists from the righteous fury of the multitudes whom they have tyrannized.

Ask yourself if it is not also your sin that such tragedies occur, that such Christian families are alone and not helped by you who are free.

God will judge us not according to how much we endured, but how much we could love

They knew what forgiveness was; they were willing to take him for better or worse; they loved him.

The subjects of her talk didn't matter; he knew what she was really saying. Helpless and gentle, small and tired and anxious to please, she was asking him to agree that her life was not a failure.

In the meantime, and this was the best part, in the meantime it was no longer necessary to dislike them.

There are far too many silent sufferers. Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no one who cares.

Don't take the high ground and assume you already know what you'll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you'll find there isn't anything you won't do.

I'm glad you're better," he said. His mouth sounded like it was almost in my hair, just above my my ear. "When I saw you fall..." "You thought, 'Wow, she's a loser.

There was a lot of apologizing going on, but I realized that was how it was with people you cared about. You forgave each other and moved on.

He leaned closer to me and then seemed shocked as he realized what he was doing. "Why would you do that? Why would you do that for me?

But Rose? While I'm fine with you two dating and being happy, please try not to brake his heart too much when the time comes.

I want her to be happy. It's worth sacrificing myself." -Eddie

We all screw up. Everyone makes mistakes. That's what she did. It was bad judgment, that's all. You don't cut off the people you love for mistakes like that.