Quotes about Compassion

I don't believe in being emotionally detached from patients. I work with and operate on human beings, all creatures of God, people in pain who need help. I don't know how I can work on a girl's brain--how I can have her life in my hands--and yet not become involved. I feel particularly strong attachments to children who seem so defenseless and who haven't yet had the chance to live a full life.

You want to know how to love me? Love my children. You want to be good to me? Be good to my children.

Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,' says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

Your wealth of experience makes you rich. Spend it on hurt people. They need it so badly.

Paul didn't just see emotions. He saw the need they represented.

If not for God's compassion, His very presence in our midst would kill us. We really have little clue who we're dealing with. The good news is: God wants us to seek Him and find Him.

When we judge a brother's or sister's sin as so much worse than our own, we are like lepers counting spots. "She has more than I do.

Sometimes all you could do for the suffering was to make sure they knew someone was suffering right there with them. Someone who had also felt stricken, and smitten, and afflicted.

I've become increasingly convinced that those we need to forgive most often grasp the least how much they've hurt us. If they understood and took responsibility, it wouldn't have taken the Cross to forgive them. It could have just happened over coffee.

Matthew 5:43-46 Love God. Love one another. Love your neighbor. Love your enemy. That about covers it. In Christ's meticulous census, the community exempt from the love of Christians has a population of exactly zero.

To extend hands of service without hearts of love is virtually meaningless.

Christ came to set the captive free—no matter what kind of yoke binds them. He came to bind up the brokenhearted—no matter what broke the heart. He came to open the eyes of the blind—no matter what veiled their vision.