Quotes about Compassion

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.

How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, how I respond to interruptions from people I dislike, how I deal with normal people in their normal confusion on a normal day may be a better indication of my reverence for life than the antiabortion sticker on the bumper of my car.

Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life...all of our life.

I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.

In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.

In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.

Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.

Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but Himself.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.

When two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or dying of the other.