Quotes about Compassion

None of us can help everyone. But all of us can help someone. And when we help them, we serve Jesus.

JESUS WASHES OUR FEET FOR TWO REASONS. The first is to give us mercy; the second is to give us a message, and that message is simply this: Jesus offers unconditional grace; we are to offer unconditional grace.

To others, Jesus was a miracle worker. To others, Jesus was a master teacher. To others, Jesus was the hope of Israel. But to John, he was all of these and more. To John, Jesus was a friend. You don't abandon a friend—not even when that friend is dead. John stayed close to Jesus.

Regardless of what you've done, it's not too late. Regardless of how far you've fallen, it's not too late. It doesn't matter how low the mistake is, it's not too late to dig down, pull out that mistake, and then let it go—and be free. What makes a Christian a Christian is not perfection but forgiveness.

How would that look on a résumé? Joseph Son of Jacob Graduate with honors from the University of Hard Knocks Director of Global Effort to Save Humanity Succeeded

You can't see the warden. You can't see the locks. But you can see the prisoners. You can see them as they sit on their bunks and bemoan their fate. They want to live, but they can't because they are doomed to do what they most want to avoid—they will die. Imagine Jesus seeing us in our "prisons" of fear:

There is something cold about a God who cannot relate to what you and I feel.

You and I are commanded—not urged, commanded—to keep no list of wrongs.

31Do not be bitter or angry or mad. Never shout angrily or say things to hurt others. Never do anything evil. 32Be kind and loving to each other, and forgive each other just as God forgave you in Christ.

How we treat others is how we treat Jesus.

Happiness happens when you give." Doing good does good for the doer.

Why did he endure all these feelings? Because he knew you would feel them too.