Quotes About Compassion

I really handled your pain poorly. I was scared and ashamed, and I blew it. Please forgive me. If I could do it over, I would respond like this ____." (Relationships mended by forgiveness are powerful things.) When we model honesty and apologies, our kids learn in real time how to construct a life on truth. We interrupt the toxic trajectory of pretending before it becomes rooted and thus a thousand times harder to pull up. Perhaps

Send kindness out in big, generous waves, send it near and far, send it through texts and e-mails and calls and words and hugs, send it by showing up, send it by proximity, send it in casseroles, send it with a well-timed "me too," send it with abandon.

What is not to love about a guy who pulled children onto His lap and saved a failing party and touched the untouchables and told off the religious elite?

Jesus was tender toward brokenness but impatient toward egotism.

It's about creating a place to belong before people are expected to behave or even believe.

Folks who thrive in God's grace give grace easily, but the self-critical person becomes others-critical.

We can't deliver folks from their pits, but we can sure get in there with them until God does.

We need not fear that He will say, "You loved too greatly, too liberally, too generously, too shockingly.

There is a clear correlation between how we treat each other and how a watching world will feel about Jesus. What should our neighbors deduce from our loving-kindness toward one another? One, that we obviously belong to Jesus, because what other explanation exists for such beautiful community?

Why is it so exhausting to uphold someone's heavy, inconvenient burden? Why are we spent from shouldering someone's grief or being an armor bearer? Why is it that lifting someone out of his or her rubble leaves us breathless? Because we are the body of Christ, broken and poured out, just as He was.

Face your issues with courage, sister, because truth and love win, and you have both those cards to play.

Lean into love and away from fear.

You are loved, loving and loveable.

LOVE YOURSELF No matter who you really are.

How do you forgive the stupid bastard?

7. LOVE YOURSELF More than you love your drama.

Even something as minor as leaving a big tip for a waitress, or picking up, instead of passing by, a quarter laying on the street, or letting your neighbor pay you for watching her dog all day, which you totally would have done for free—that's all coming from an energy of abundance and a healthy, happy appreciation for money.

giving is one of our greatest joys. It's also one of the most fearless and powerful gestures there is.

We need people to feel happy and fulfilled and loved so they don't take their shit out on themselves and other people and the planet and our animal friends.

Finding compassion is one of the most effective ways to earn your flowy spiritual robes.

Because that's really what this is all about. We need smart people with huge hearts and creative minds to manifest all the wealth, resources, and support they need to make their difference in the world. We need people to feel happy and fulfilled and loved so they don't take their shit out on themselves and other people and the planet and our animal friends. We need to be surrounded by people who radiate

The power of giving is so strong that the excitement and the good feelings are often greater for the giver than for the receiver. Which

We're on a planet that somehow knows how to rotate on its axis and follow a defined path while it hurtles through space! Our hearts beat! We can see! We have love, laughter, language, living rooms, computers compassion, cars, fire, fingernails, flowers, music, medicine, mountains, muffins! We live in a limitless Universe overflowing with miracles! The fact that we aren't stumbling around in an inconsolable state of sobbing awe is appalling.

We are here to share, we really are, which is why greed doesn't bring joy to anyone.