Quotes about Compassion

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation.

If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent.

Whether you are a mailman, a hairdresser, an insurance salesman, a housewife—whatever. As long as you feel you are serving others, you do the job well. When you are concerned only with helping yourself, you do it less well—a law as inexorable as gravity.

Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother bringing a newborn into the world. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others, even for people who offend or do not love in return. If you are a parent, look at the love you have for the children you sacrificed for. Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions. Proactive people subordinate feelings to values. Love, the feeling, can be recaptured.

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing.

Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist.

He measures our lives by how we love.

The more one forgives himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.

You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love, invite love to accompany you 24/7. Give away love, and it has to come streaming into your life.

God's big plan: go love everybody, always!

In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love

Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.