Quotes About Compassion

How can I judge?" she said at last. "To me, he is a hero. To the world a monster." She let her head fall into her arms and started crying quietly. "I miss him! Curse him! I miss him!" Mithorden put a hand on her shoulder and let her cry for a few minutes. A sad smile slowly spread across his face. "I'm glad you can forgive him," he said at last. Luthiel lifted her head. "How do you know?" Because you miss him.

If I could make a dream real, I would not kill anything unless it could never be changed at heart.

Everybody, even the worst stinker on earth, is somebody for whom Christ died.

We are supposed to represent a Lord who came not to judge the world but to save it. Our business should be simply to keep everybody in the net of his kingdom until we reach the farther shore. Sorting is strictly his department, not ours.

There is only one unpardonable sin, and that is to withhold pardon from others.

God does not punish people for being nonpacifists; war alone is punishment enough.

If you take the view that one of the chief objects in life is to remain in loving relationships with other people, straight-line power becomes useless.

God in Jesus didn't prevent sinners from sinning, he went around forgiving them right and left.

All we have is our humanity and affinities, and the hope that these may be enough in this world ["Saving the Whales"].

Oh, perdona!- dijo el caballero, moviendo rápidamente la pierna para que la ardilla pudiera recuperar su cola. -Espero no haberte hecho daño. No veo muy bien con esta visera en mi camino. -No lo dudo- replico la ardilla sin ningún resentimiento en la voz. -Por eso siempre estáis pidiendo disculpa a la gente por haberles hecho daño.

Pero yo le podría evitar el sufrimiento, la lucha, el dolor y la tristeza a los que va a tener que enfrentarse. ?Nuestra experiencia es lo único que no podemos ofrecer a los demás. Cada uno tiene que pasar por su propio dolor y pesar para poder encontrar la alegría y la felicidad que hay al otro lado ?le dijo Merlín con dulzura.

8.000 soldados iraquíes habían sido enterrados vivos en sus trincheras por las excavadoras y arados montados sobre los tanques de la división de infantería motorizada estadounidense,6 el breve momento de compasión que esto generó seguramente tuvo más que ver con la conciencia culpable por la pasividad occidental para con los insurgentes iraquíes que con la enorme pérdida de vidas humanas que representaba.

Armin Wegner, un enfermero alemán y alférez en el séquito del mariscal de campo Von der Goltz, desobedeció las órdenes y tomó centenares de fotografías de las víctimas armenias en los campos de Ras al Ain, Rakka, Alepo y Deir ez Zor. Hoy esas desgarradoras fotografías de muertos y moribundos constituyen el núcleo de los testimonios fotográficos.

As it is more blessed to give than receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense.

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

Think what a better world it would be if we all-the whole world-had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. And it is still true, no matter how old you are-when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living, hope for the dead.