Quotes About Compassion

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

There are a lot of people in the world who are not loved and we must make an inconspicuous dash to them to save them, to help them. To live a life and not be loved is a terrible thing. And we can spare them that if we are attentive.

If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.

white folks can never comprehend a situation where they can't be forgiven for past transgressions).

God loves each one of us as if there were only one of us. —St. Augustine

The only justification for looking down on anyone, is that you're going to stop and pick them up.

she never asked. She waited for the shrapnel buried in his soul to work its own way to the surface.

Amicu certus in re incerta cernitur' [A true friend is a friend when in difficulty]

While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.

There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.

Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.

Love builds bridges where there are none.

Atheists are in a difficult position. A lot of modern religion is progressive, ethical and socially responsible--not about "supernaturalism" or a tyrannical ancient God. Atheists, on the one hand, risk giving the impression that they are campaigning against compassion and basic human values, or on the other that they are in a fight to finish off a dinosaur that was killed by liberal theology while they were sleeping.

remarked: [I]f our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements , etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.4

Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.

We will learn in this chapter of 1 Kings 17 the amazing and surprising ways God supplies our needs. But it also demonstrates God's love for all peoples, not only Israel.

What do you do when you are misunderstood? Elijah impressively set a standard for how one should respond when

And you will never be lonely either," said Anna. "You shall come and live with us." "No, darling," Lucy said quietly. Impossible to explain, even to Anna, that loneliness was not a matter of solitude but of the spirit and often much greater in company for that very reason.

Real love isn't blind, it sees everything and has an endless capacity for forgiving.

Can one be really happy at some one else's expense?