Quotes about Compassion

If God spares us as a father does his son, let us imitate God. It is natural for children to imitate their parents. Let us imitate God in this one thing: As God spares us, and passes by many failures, so let us be sparing in our censures of others; let us look upon the weaknesses and indiscretions of our brethren with...a more tender, compassionate eye. How much God bears with us!

It is not how much we do, but how much we love.

Many like to hear of the love of Christ, but not of loving their enemies; they like the comforts of the word, but not its reproofs.

Love is such a grace as we know not how to be without. A soldier may as well be without his weapons, an artist without his pencil, a musician without his instrument, as a Christian can be without love.

Every time we draw our breath we suck in mercy.

Godly sorrow goes deep, like a vein which bleeds inwardly. The heart bleeds for sin: "they were pricked in their heart" (Act 2:37). As the heart bears a chief part in sinning, so it must in sorrowing.

The more helpful we are to others, the more like we are to God.

love 'thinketh no evil.' 1 Cor 13: 5. It puts the best interpretation upon another's words.

Those who are patterns of mercy should be trumpets of praise.

Grace makes the heart tender, it causes sympathy and charity. As it melts the heart in contrition towards God, so in compassion towards others.

God may chastise, but He cannot hate.

A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, till he leads justice to victory." Matthew 12:20