Quotes About Compassion

When pain or illness consumes her with little hope of recovery; when your cat knows her fight is done; when prolonging her life offers no hope for enjoying that life; these are determinations only you, as your cat's best friend, can make. People who are closely bonded to their special cats just know when the time is right. Listen to your heart, and your cat will tell you when she's ready to say goodbye.

Remember, nobody will think less of you if not all the claws are trimmed at one setting. It's best to stop before your kitten gets peeved, so be satisfied with clipping one or two claws each day.

Segregate an ill cat from the others, especially if they're treating him poorly.

between her lips. Then squirt the medicine into her cheek. Withdraw the syringe, and hold her mouth closed until you see her swallow.

If I could give something to Fleurette?—if I could give her one silent gift from a mother she didn't know she had?—it would be this: the realization that we have to be a part of the world in which we live. We don't scurry away when we're in trouble, or when someone else is. We don't run and hide.

What I didn't say to Francis was that when Lucy grabbed me on the street in Paterson that day, I couldn't understand how anyone would take hold of a stranger and pour out their troubles. But now I realized that people did it all the time. They called for help. And some people would answer[.]

we have to be a part of the world in which we live. We don't scurry away when we're in trouble, or when someone else is. We don't run and hide.

give her one silent gift from a mother she didn't know she had—it would be this: the realization that we have to be a part of the world in which we live. We don't scurry away when we're in trouble, or when someone else is. We don't run and hide.

Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

fastest way to win a kingdom is by being kind and gentle instead of using violence and cruelty. Do

Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.

I rejoice that I have a heart big enough to break over and over again.

IT WOULD BE REALLY pretty easy to be virtuous, be that disciple of Jesus, if it weren't for one big problem. Those other people. Yeah. Them.

lower my voice instead of raise it, model flexibility rather than impatience, embrace my child rather than my frustration. I

Is it possible to cause so much misery to another human being, simply by being oneself? she wondered, feeling a reflection of that misery. No help for it; she must continue to be herself.

This world. This human race. It isn't divided into sexes. Everybody thinks it's divided into sexes but it isn't. It's the givers and the takers. The diners and the dinners.

compassion can be felt in the gut; mercy needs to be enacted with the body.

In Israel's Scriptures, God's concern is not restricted to insiders: it extends to strangers, to slaves, to women, and to any who are oppressed, for we are all children of God.

But she came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, help me." 26 He answered, "It is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs." 27 She said, "Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table." 28 Then Jesus answered her, "Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish." And her daughter was healed instantly.

They are in the field where they protect their animals: they represent those who care for the vulnerable. They may also remind us of other shepherds: Rebecca, Rachel, Moses, and David.

It's possible these men were afraid. . . . And so the first question that the priest [and] the Levite asked was, 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' . . . But then the Good Samaritan came by, and he reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?

The audience, surprised at this lack of compassion, would have presumed both that the third person would be an Israelite and that he would help.

Jesus has to explain that dropping bombs is not the proper response to a lack of hospitality.