Quotes about Compassion
Ultimately, forgiveness is a choice we make, and the ability to forgive others comes from the recognition that we are all flawed and all human. We all have made mistakes and harmed others. We will again. We find it easier to practice forgiveness when we can recognize that the roles could have been reversed.
— Desmond Tutu
We choose to either walk the path of revenge and be bound to suffering, or take the path of forgiveness and be freed into healing.
— Desmond Tutu
When we accept our own pain we can begin to see past it to the other person's woundedness. We can begin to consider that if we were in their shoes, if we stood inside their story, we might have done to others what they did to us.
— Desmond Tutu
When we can accept both our humanity and the perpetrator's we can write a new story. One in which we are no longer cast as a victim, but a survivor, even perhaps a hero.
— Desmond Tutu
We all have the duty to do good.
— Pope Francis
We got a dying world around us.
— Kenneth Copeland
When you truly empathize with someone, you have to take into account all the things that make that person who they are.
— Tarana Burke
We only have what we give.
— Isabel Allende
The person who is impatient with weakness will be ineffective in his leadership.
— J. Oswald Sanders
The same Christ Jesus is not the same for everyone, because people are different. He has one profile for the poor and another for the rich, one profile for the sick and another for the healthy.
— Jurgen Moltmann
As the Christ for all human beings, Jesus takes hold of our divided and peaceless human society at its lowest point, among the miserable, the despised and the unimportant.
— Jurgen Moltmann
Jesus didn't just wear a cross around his neck, he carried it on his back.
— J. John