Quotes About Compassion

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.

But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

asks whether an infected child can live in an orphanage. "They still think HIV is caught like a cold

Nonsense. You've done nothing to be blamed for, and besides, there's enough hate in the world. I refuse to add to it.

Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.1

Because of the LORD'S great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. LAMENTATIONS 3:22 – 23

Though she lived on the periphery of God's people and was unquestionably an outsider, Rahab nevertheless had eyes to see, ears to hear, a heart to hope, and a will to throw herself on God's mercy.

Sometimes doing the right thing wounds others — and also wounds the wounder.

Hurting people hurt people. And often the one who seems to get "cut" the most is the person lashing out. They nurse their pain, anger, bitterness, frustration, unforgiveness, or resentment until those emotions become their master and they are enslaved to them.

My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground … . I remember my affliction … the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.1

Wounded people may not get over their wounds easily or quickly. Wounds can be hard just to brush aside because the wounder says, "I'm sorry.

God loved Hagar as much as He loved Abraham!

Forgive, and you will be forgiven. LUKE 6:37

Love is a choice — a decision we make to put the well-being of the other person before our own. And forgiveness is also a decision.

God has forgiven me. As an act of grateful worship, I choose to forgive others.10

Jesus' example teaches a powerful lesson. He demonstrates that one way to overcome emotional pain is to focus on the needs of others — to reach out and help someone else who may also be suffering.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. JOHN 13:35

The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion. PSALM 116:5

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. MATTHEW 9:36

As God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. COLOSSIANS 3:12

Would the contagious cycle of pain in your life, or that of your family or church, be stopped if you would be the first to reach out, to give in, to say you are sorry, or at the very least open up a conversation on the source of the wounds?

The LORD your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn his face from you if you return to him. 2 CHRONICLES 30:9

Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me. MARK 9:37