Quotes about Compassion

Of course, you have the right to suffer, but as a practitioner, you do not have the right not to practice. We all need to be understood and loved, but the practice is not merely to expect understanding and love. It is to practice understanding and love. Please don't complain when no one seems to love or understand you. Make the effort to understand and love them better.

Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.

I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.

Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.

Angry and resentful people enjoy judging other people's problems because it makes them feel better about their own issues.

Listen with grace, with no judgment, without imposing the law.

People have to realize that just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean that you're perfect, because every once in a while everyone stumbles.

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

We are commanded to seek out those who are lost. We are to be our brother's keeper.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them.