Quotes about Compassion

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.

All men and women of good will are bound by the task of pursuing peace.

Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.

We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.

Perhaps we could push beyond these legalistic gender roles if we spent less time worrying about "acting like men" and "acting like women," and more time acting like Jesus.

I thank all missionaries, men and women who quietly work hard for the Lord and their brothers and sisters.