Quotes About Compassion

I felt myself becoming angry too easily. I once saw a couple at a restaurant, and I could tell from their mannerisms that they were having some type of disagreement. I got mad at the guy and wanted to tell him, "Come on – appreciate your wife!

She chose to look at her surroundings where they "think missionary" mind-set.

Yes, it's true, you can only be as happy as your least happy child and they are a constant font of worry and stress.

Heads and hearts are connected.

Let's defend the principle of a society that cares for everyone and everyone cares for everyone else.

The common good is the aspiration of all of us.

We don't pass by on the other side.

In the end, the majority of the group voted to let the wizard live.

This is a jury of your peers. They watch the same TV movies. They belong to Oprah's Book Club. You can take any monster, slap a bad dad into his past, and all of a sudden he's just another lost soul, lashing out. And you were the poor lady that got in the way. They'll argue you lacked compassion. You were the one who took things too far.

Loneliness is a hell of a drug. A week prior I'd misted up when a grocery clerk told me, "Take care.

Any law which runs counter to the good of man is no law at all.

But your ability to forgive is worthless if you cannot turn it upon yourself. If you do not, the darkness you seek to defeat will eat you from the inside.

Look with great forgiveness upon the weakness of others.

It's not our ability to get forgiveness that saves us. It's out ability to grant forgiveness

One thing I've found that eases the pain," Cody said, 'is to remember that we are all connected, to those we know and those we don't know.

My fellow Americans, good evening. My name is Becca Goldman and I weep with all of you." I texted one word to Megan, 'Gag' She wrote back: 'My name is Becca Goldman, and I sleep with all of you

Oh, unheard of compassion of the apostle! In seeking to make the Jews Christians, he himself became a Jew! For he could not have persuaded the luxurious to become temperate if he had not himself become luxurious like them;

omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.

I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.

I like cats.... When I meet a cat, I say, "Poor Pussy!" and stoop down and tickle the side of its head; and the cat sticks up its tail in a rigid, cast-iron manner, arches its back, and wipes its nose up against my trousers; and all is gentleness and peace.

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

We need to ask ourselves, "In what way do others see salvation dwelling in my house?

We teach our children to be undefiled and separate rather than to show mercy—then, when they grow up, we wonder why they find evangelism to be so difficult.

Christ has loved us in our great need. He asks us to lift up our eyes and show a little of this love to those around us.