Quotes about Compassion

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Leading sinners to salvation en masse - or one by one - it is all the same. I eat it. I sleep it. I dream it. I speak it. I write it. I pray it. I weep it. I laugh it.

I have suffered most of the things I write about - or my friends have.

The same love and graciousness as though I were a queen already and not wretched little Much-Afraid." Then she looked up into his face and for a little time could say no more, but at last she added, "My Lord, I cannot tell you how greatly I want to regard others in the same way.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

We talk about touching our guys in a personal way, knowing that we all want to play basketball and coach basketball, but our guys are dealing with stuff and we want to make sure we are sensitive to that.

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.

You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.

I am prepared to talk with anyone. I have no personal grudge toward anybody.

I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.