Quotes about Compassion

my multifold years of life, I have learned that most people get along as best they can. They don't intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving.

If Satan has toeholds that allow him to claw and climb from the underworld to this one, they lie in our failure to see ourselves in others.

The darkest hours of history have always been born of the efforts of one people to dehumanize another.

It's those little nicks and dents and imperfections of spirit that allow us to flow out into a thirsty world. It's our scars that allow us to relate to the scars of others, our suffering that connects us to others who suffer.

It occurred to me that I should do more for other people. I never once considered that there were people just down the road who cannot afford proper clothing, or care for their children.

Sometimes we cannot raise our chins and see eye to eye, so we must bow our heads and have faith in one another.

A little act of service. Is it possible that all service is worship? The words were still in my head.

Father, help these young people to see. Help them to show the world that our greatness is not in things we do for ourselves, but in things we do for others. In power that channels itself into kindness, in a hand outstretched in love. Be with these determined students. Help them to believe, when the naysayers come, that you make all things possible. "'And,

Father, help these young people to see. Help them to show the world that our greatness is not in things we do for ourselves, but in things we do for others.

Tough times make good people and bad people.

I never thought to ask her name, Father, but you know the little mulberry girl as you know each sparrow of the field. You are the white berry that removes the stain.

A life can be blessed without your ever deserving it. You can be loved by people just because they choose to love you.