Quotes about Compassion

Most people are walking around with way more hurts from their past than we can ever imagine. Pretty much everyone has at some point been deeply hurt by someone. That's your "me too.

Never let loyalty and kindness leave you! Tie them around your neck as a reminder. Write them deep within your heart. Then you will find favor with both God and people, and you will earn a good reputation. (vv. 3 — 4 NLT)

And in that you will find the why. Why did this happen? Because there's someone else in the world who would drown in their own tears for not seeing yours.

Choosing a gentle reply doesn't mean you're weak; it actually means you possess a rare and godly strength.

My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. (John 15:9 — 12)

Psalm 103:8 The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.

Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning;

If so, I guarantee when the enemy sees us he shakes with fear. He isn't scared of the judgmental soul shellacked with a fake sense of perfection. But the compassionate soul who has hurt deeply and come out loving? Yes, she is one of the superstars of God's grand story, and the one you want near you in the battles of life.

And in that you will finally find the why. Why did this happen? Because there's someone else in the world who would drown in their own tears if not for seeing yours. And when you make one other human simply see they aren't alone, you make the world a better place.

I can't expect a perfection in others I'm not even capable of living out myself.

had the wrong notion that to be a Christian requires that we believe the best no matter what. That it's unkind to draw boundaries. That it's noble and commendable to stay in a relationship no matter what. I no longer believe that.

People who care more about being right than ending right prove just how wrong they were all along. Lord, let me end this the right way.