Quotes about Compassion

Be tough minded but tenderhearted.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

Never deprive someone of hope it may be all they have

The 3 most powerful resources you have available to you : love, prayer and forgiveness.

When Niebuhr thought a little more deeply about Darrow's empathy with black suffering, however, he said, "I suppose it is difficult to escape bitterness when you have eyes to see and heart to feel what others are too blind and too callous to notice."

Love and light are the essential fruits of a Christlike life.

Never plead your merits before God. Plead mercy. It is mercy we need. We need it from first to last, and we need it every single day.

The thief on the cross had to be the luckiest man alive. He was nothing more than a low-life criminal, a loser. He had committed a crime. He was convicted for it, and he was crucified for it. So he had no future; he was going nowhere; or worse, he was going to hell. Yet of all the criminals, on all the crosses, on all the hills in the Roman Empire, he was crucified next to Jesus Christ.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.

Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world.

I had the opportunity to go into the hospitals and talk to kids and see a kid and make him smile. Why? Because I'm a special person? No. It had nothing to do with that. It has everything to do with me being the quarterback at the University of Florida. And to not take advantage of that is a shame.