Quotes About Compassion

I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.

You know, you've never really cared about anyone, he said. But someday you will, and it's going to hurt. It's going to hurt a lot.

Winning an argument is losing it as it makes the loser feel bad.

You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.

There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.

A holy relationship is where the brokenness and wounds of the world are not escaped so much as as transformed by love, not hidden from but risen above.

Today, befriend a stranger, or if you feel up to more of a challenge, befriend a loved one.

Don't build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon

You've got to love yourself first, and until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.

It was the love of love, the love of swallows up all else, a grateful love, a love of natural, of people, of animals, a love ingengering gentleness and goodness that moved meand that I saw in you

We love purely when we release other people to be who they are.

When no one is selfless in a relationship, there is war. When one is selfless, there is peace. When both are selfless, there is joy.

How do you conduct an intimate relationship where no one ever loses it? Where no one ever lashes out, where no one ever smacks anyone in the mouth?

You can be right or you can have empathy. You can't do both.

God is the Father who is full of mercy. God is the Father who is full of comfort. That is the kind of relationship he offers to you.

One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.

Compassion is essential for any type of relationship between anybody – human to human, human to dog, human to cat, human to bird.

True charity ought to begin in marriage, for it is a relationship that must be rebuilt every day.

Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship.

Kindness that allows barriers to one's relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive.

Of course 'we humans' have a funny relationship with the beings with whom we share our planet. We eat them, we care for them, we admire them, we use them.

My choice is what I choose to do and if I'm causing no harm it shouldn't bother you. Your choice is who you choose to be and if you're causin' no harm, then your alright with me.

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.