Quotes about Compassion

Love is not a feeling; it's giving someone what he or she needs most when it is least deserved. That's how God loved me, and I choose to stick with the program.

Love says, "I'm with you, let's deal with it.

I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humbled Himself and He so yielded Himself to His Father's love that He had no ambition of His own. He was not looking to build an empire, He did not want praise or adulation or to impress people with who or how many followed Him. He stopped over and over again for just one person, for just one life.

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.