Quotes About Compassion

El cual le dio por respuesta: No es justo tomar el pan de los hijos, y echarlo a los perros. 27 Mas ella dijo: Es verdad, Señor, pero los perritos comen a lo menos de las migajas que caen de la mesa de sus amos. 28 Entonces Jesús respondiendo, le dice: ¡Oh mujer! grande es tu fe: hágase conforme tú lo deseas. Y en la misma hora su hija quedó curada. 29

Hijo de David, ten compasión de nosotros.

54 Jesús pues la cogió de la mano y dijo en alta voz: Niña levántate. 55 Y de repente volvió su alma al cuerpo, y se levantó al instante. Y Jesús mandó que le diesen de comer. 56 Y quedaron sus padres llenos de asombro, a los cuales mandó que a nadie dijesen lo que había sucedido. 9

26 Habiendo mirado pues Jesús a su madre, y al discípulo que él amaba, el cual estaba allí, dice a su madre: Mujer, ahí tienes a tu hijo. 27 Después dice al discípulo: Ahí tienes a tu madre. Y desde aquel punto se encargó de ella el discípulo, y la tuvo consigo en su casa. 28

Love isn't blind, it's retarded.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

But it is not what I am saying that is hurting you; it is that you have wounds that I touch by what I have said. You are hurting yourself. There is no way I can take this personally.

Yet here we are, sitting in a restaurant, surrounded by people, many of whom are probably lost and going to hell, and we won't say a word about how they can have eternal life. Something is wrong with us. "You're absolutely right," I said. "We're willing to save someone in a visible crisis, but a lot of folks are in spiritual crisis and we don't say a word about how they can get out of it.

I had seen my refusal as not wanting to impose; they saw my change as giving them an opportunity to help.

Kierkegaard's advice. He suggested that we become subjective toward others and objective toward ourselves. That is, when we judge the actions of others, we should put ourselves in their place, trying to understand how they see themselves and their world. And when we judge ourselves, we should see ourselves as others see us, overcoming the ease with which we find extenuating circumstances for ourselves.

the longest way round is the shortest way home." Our truest fulfillment does not lie in the direction of a jealously guarded self but in the direction of self-transcendence as we learn to open to others and to reality.

If a few people escape from a burning building before the firemen arrive, does that discourage the firemen from rescuing others who are still trapped?

obviously someone will! The issue is rather, will the most sympathetic person get there first?

Harry is a black man, and I'm a white man. We obviously come from different backgrounds, but we stand together on this stage as brothers. And as a brother, I must say these race riots are terrible. It's awful how stores are being looted. The burning, the rioting, the stealing. But if, God forbid, it does happen again—and I pray it doesn't—all I can say is, 'Harry, I could use a couch and a couple of end tables.

I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

you do not avenge a murder by killing—you avenge it by living.

We are all cripples, Keller thinks, limping together through this crippled world. It's what we owe to each other. Chuy goes inside. Keller sits outside on a bench and waits. The words of the psalm come back to him— "Be still and know that I am God." There is nothing to do but be still.

We are all cripples, Keller thinks, limping together through this crippled world. It's what we owe to each other.

Accept grace when it's offered

Later, when Marie was so sick and they both knew that their sunsets together were numbered, he would bundle her up in a coat and a blanket, a knit cap for her bare head, make her a cup of hot tea because she was always cold, and they would sit and watch the sunset, knowing it was their own as well. Now he sits and watches alone, although he still pours a glass of red wine for her, which he tosses over the deck into the bushes when he's ready to go inside. It's

The first time he saw the child, she was in a cage. The last time he saw her, she was free.

There are no humanitarians in cages

Living is more important than acceptance - acceptance is not as important as understanding. - Donald Allen Kirch