Quotes about Compassion

If you are called as a missionary—a "sent-out one"—then you are called to comfort those who mourn. You are called to love the broken until they understand God's love—a love that never dies—through you.

This bride will give up the selfish riches of this world to inherit the earth. She will be so ruined and wrecked by love that she will run full force into the darkness. This will cause His light through her to explode into the world—all for love's sake.

And His heart is always to heal the sick person.

When I held Beatrice, I caught scabies and lice. But it didn't matter. My only goal is to love more.

What is a peacemaker? Peacemakers are the mercy of God to a sinful world.

When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.

The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.

Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.