Quotes about Compassion
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
— Stephen Covey
You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.
— Corrie Ten Boom
There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.
— Mother Teresa
It doesn't matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love!
— John Lennon
Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.
— CS Lewis
I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
— Joseph Campbell
From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross.
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.
— Rick Warren
May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
— Pope John Paul II
Ask, could my gifts, education, career, or experience be used to spread the gospel where it's needed most?
— David Platt
All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.
— Mark Twain