Quotes About Compassion

Bad things happen—wars, plagues, parents abandoning their children, the heartless preying on those with hearts—and no one, not a human or a god, will intervene.

Feel good, be good, and do good.

Love is the ultimate state of human being where compassion prevails and kindness rules.

Recognize the other person is you.

Be enlightened that the other human being is you. Understand through compassion that passion will make you misunderstand. Vibrate on the cosmos and the cosmos will clear your path. When fear and insecurity leave you, truth and spirit will be with you. T

Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.

Whereas John and Yoko might have comfortably lounged around in holiday mode on palatial country estates...the Lennons had this extraordinary urge and need to put something back. To stand up for reason in an unreasonable world, to take advantage of their extraordinary media profile to refocus public attitude and outlook on the murdering of other humans. (Ritchie Yorke)

I saw Jews raising Torah scrolls, which contain the injunction to remember that we were strangers in Egypt and so we must treat the stranger fairly, dancing in the streets emptied of their Palestinian neighbors. The insistence on empathy with the stranger appears with greater frequency in the Torah than any other verse—including commandments to observe the Sabbath and keep kosher.

Yossi Klein Halevi

Curiosity led to empathy - the great enemies of self-righteousness.

What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.

The doctrines contained in the Bible will lift to a superior condition all who observe them; they will impart to them knowledge, wisdom, charity, fill them with compassion and cause them to feel after the wants of those who are in distress.

Look into those they call unfortunate, And closer view'd, you'll find they are unwise.

A tender smile, our sorrows' only balm.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

Something in the heart of most human beings simply cannot abide pain inflicted on the innocent, especially children. Even broken men serving in the worst correctional facilities will often first take out their own rage on those who have caused suffering to children. Even in such a world of relative morality, causing harm to a child is still considered absolutely wrong. Period!

In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well.

There is only one race ... and it is human!

I don't see the Father pouring out his wrath on the Son. I see the human race pouring out their wrath on the Son. So I see the only hope for the entire cosmos is what the Son chooses to accept, crawling upon the instrument of our greatest wrath. He met us at the deepest, darkest place.

Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

Look at us human beings: it's so much easier to be right than to love.

It is when the suffering of others becomes part of my own experience that I truly know what it is to live and what it is to write. Nothing in the world, perhaps, is so likely to forge a connection between people as pain, because the connection that comes from that source comes from deep in the heart.