Quotes about Compassion

She asked God to use this experience to help my heart break forever for those who don't know Christ.

When dealing with overly critical people, try to see past the arrows to the struggles that launched them.

On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfaction.

Through years of maturing, I've learned that it's not our job to force our beliefs down others' throats until they echo back what we want to hear. No, our job is to challenge their categories by doing the same things Jesus did: loving them, challenging them, accepting them, and forgiving them.

Pause for a moment and prayerfully consider your response: What breaks your heart?

What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?

When he chose friends, Jesus surrounded himself with the lonely, the broken, and the overlooked. God is calling you to be a part of his church, to be his church. If you don't feel like you're good enough, then you're exactly who he's looking for.

Rather than complaining about inconsequential little irritations, I'm asking God to get right to the root of the problem, to eradicate the dry rot and fix the cracks in my foundation. I need Him to show me how to love Him and how to love His people. Even the ones I don't like - even myself.

Whatever's on your mind is also on God's heart.

If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so you can stock up on capri pants for next summer or afford a leather interior in the new SUV. As long as you don't own the responsibility of being blessed with resources so that you can give to those around you, then you can stay focused on getting more for yourself.

We find our lives when we give them away.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.