Quotes about Compassion

Take my heart and squeeze it out over the face of Your Bride, the Church.

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

The greater are our affections the deeper are our afflictions, and the more we love the more we have to weep.

Because there is one God, all people are related to that one God on equal terms. The central command of that one God is to love neighbors—to treat others as we would like them to treat us, as expressed in the Golden Rule. We cannot claim any rights for ourselves and our group that we are not willing to give to others. Whether as a stance of the heart or as outward practice, religion cannot be coerced.[217]

By embracing the "outcast," Jesus underscored the "sinfulness" of the persons and systems that cast them out.

The principle cannot be denied: the fiercer the struggle against the injustice you suffer, the blinder you will be to the injustice you inflict.

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans even as I exclude myself from the community of sinners

Christian faith is therefore a "prophetic" faith that seeks to mend the world. An idle or redundant faith—a faith that does not seek to mend the world—is a seriously malfunctioning faith

To remember a wrongdoing is to struggle against it.

the central question was how to remember rightly. And given my Christian sensibilities, my question from the start was, How should I remember abuse as a person committed to loving the wrongdoer and overcoming evil with good?

A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion.

We need to learn how to deny ourselves, so we can do that which does not come naturally—to truly love God and others.