Quotes About Compassion

Prayer is love-centered. It is not so much belief in God that matters, but love of God, and similarly love of others, including love of enemies.

The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.

Forgiveness is most Christlike when it is given to the undeserving.

As your heart goes, so goes your family! If your heart isn't right, no child raising system, rules, or gimmicks will ever work. As your heart goes, so goes your parenting!

Jesus came to serve, and He wants you to follow His example.

Since people are animals—especially ones who've been encouraged their entire lives to view you as a natural predator who's constantly seeking to kill, maim, defame, and oppress them—they tend to smell blood with every escalating gesture of compassion. It emboldens them to bite the hand that meekly holds out the olive branch.

Mean people suck

But no one names a thing that doesn't have hope. No one names a thing that doesn't have a future. No one names a lost dog.

If you show goodwill and kindness toward those who cannot stand up for themselves, you set a tone of compassion and goodwill that permeates all.

Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.

Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.

I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is a part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems

Lisa Henson about her father) He admired the job of the man who walks along the road picking up trash with a long stick. He thought that guy had a great job, walking along with a stick, enjoying the road, and doing only good in the world, with hundreds of small actions.

It is a mark of courage to set aside self-interest in order to be of service to others or to a cause.

God's connection to the poor and suffering is so deep that a response of compassion is insufficient. What might this response be?

Desperately in need of some stranger's handIn a desperate land

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

Sometimes...I lose myself in looking back upon the ocean which I have passed, and now and then find myself surprised by a tear in reflecting upon the friends I have lost, and the scenes of distress that I have witnessed, and which I was unable to relieve. —Dr. Benjamin Rush

I'm starting to recognize that I am immersed in a sea of hurting people every day. If I simply pay attention and follow the promptings of the Spirit in all these little ways, my life is "ministry.

I've had people tell me to get over it. I politely tell them, 'How about if I chop off your finger and see if it grows back?

In the end, a person is only known by the impact he or she has on others.

The only way to truly get more out of life for yourself is to give part of yourself away.

Only when we try to understand one another's suffering can we begin to bring each other joy.

Anything good, honorable, and desirable in life is based on love. Anything bad or evil is simply life without the love involved.