Quotes about Compassion

The great mystery is not the cures, but the infinite compassion which is their source.

detach ourselves from making our individual experience the criterion for our approach to others

We wonder if we serve better than someone else. We import a drive to achieve into our works of mercy.

God is there. God's light is there. God's forgiveness is there. God's boundless love is there.

Dorotheus writes: "Don't look for the affection of your neighbor. He who looks for it is troubled when he does not get it. You yourself, however, have to give witness to the love for your neighbor and to offer him rest, and thus you will bring your neighbor to love.

The few times, however, that we do obey our severe masters and listen carefully to our restless hearts, we may start to sense that in the midst of our sadness there is joy, that in the midst of our fears there is peace, that in the midst of our greediness there is the possibility of compassion and that indeed in the midst of our irking loneliness we can find the beginnings of a quiet solitude.

A friend once wrote: "Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.

It is folly for a man who has a dead person in his house to leave him there and go to weep over his neighbor's dead."

There is great pain and suffering in the world. But the pain hardest to bear is your own.

In the context of a compassionate embrace, our brokenness may appear beautiful, but our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

Following Jesus means to let go of the "I" and move toward the "other." Following Jesus means to dare to move out of ourselves and to slowly let go of building our "self" up.

We need you to be a father who can claim for himself the authority of true compassion.