Quotes about Compassion

Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous - the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong.

We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering we are being kind to ourselves. the truth is, we only become more fearful, more hardened, and more alienated.

Never use the message of the cross to crucify those you don't like, or the sword of the Spirit to attack other believers.

Love suffers far more for the pains of the beloved than for its own pains.

Mercy is Truth clothed; judgment is Truth naked.

The more you treat someone you hate as if you loved them, the more you will find yourself loving them.

Kennedy: You mean it's not a matter of good deeds versus bad deeds, a kind of moral bookkeeping? Lewis: No indeed. Look at the thief on the cross. He made it to paradise even though his life's red ink certainly outweighed the black. Kennedy:

Charity transcends mere virtue. Yet once this charity exists, it fulfills all virtue, as the New Law fulfills the Old and as grace fulfills nature. Charity is the heart and soul of all virtue.

from each according to his ability to each according to his need"

We too can love with the will even when we do not have loving emotions or feelings. We make this distinction toward ourselves quite easily, so we should be able to do it toward others too when necessary.

nothing else can ever cure our sick world except saints, and saints are never made except by prayer.

it is possible to love one's friend for another reason than God, whereas God is the only reason for loving one's enemy.