Quotes about Compassion

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Anyone can give away something expensive, but only those who understand sacrifice can give away something valuable.

When we love those who hate us and pray for those who persecute us, we extend the Gospel of peace to a godless and destructive world.

Trying to be patient with people without loving them is like expecting there to be heat without actually lighting the torch.

I was beginning to learn from my grandfather that love covers a multitude of sins and that I was more important to him than his stuff.

He adored me in spite of my blunders. He never made me feel like the rules were more important than our relationship. He often corrected me, but he refused to punish me.

True freedom only occurs when we break off the shackles of fear and embrace a culture of mercy and grace.

You cannot understand how intense depression and anxiety can be unless you have been there, and not every chemical imbalance signifies a demon. Sometimes we need to give people permission to take medication if they need it—which, by the way, is a huge no-no in many Christian circles.

Somebody once said, "Show me a man's friends and I will tell you about that man's character." We should love everybody and never neglect the poor or needy, but the people whom we allow to influence us really determine our future.

Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted" (Galatians 6:1).

The letter of the law says, "Let them glean." The spirit of the law says, "Feed them." Two entirely different concepts. Ruth's bold proposal exposes the difference.

The endless, unrelieved suffering of so many who are unable to deliver themselves is a reality we can no longer ignore.