Quotes about Compassion

It's often at our most broken that we realize how loved we really are.

What I think we as the church lack, though, is a place to talk about how things really are now. In our desire to be an inspiration to one another we often veil what is true, because what is true is not always inspirational. But hurting believers whose lives are in tatters often need real help. If we were able to put aside our need for approval long enough to be authentic, then, surely, we would be living as the church.

The love of Christ knows no boundaries, recognizes no labels.

Many of the judgments we make of one another—judgments that cause great pain—are preventable, because they are based on misunderstanding

John Donne, the sixteenth-century poet, wrote these familiar but profound words: No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main…Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. —C. S. LEWIS, MERE CHRISTIANITY

Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends. Proverbs 17:9

A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out" (Isaiah 42:3).

You live your life and it ends quite quickly and all you can do with it is pass it on decently to someone else. Whether directly or indirectly, behave decently to other people.

If you were to write your life motto, what would it say? Look out for number one? Or look out for the needs of others?

Every time one person becomes peaceful in their own life, it changes the world.

I cherish my every connection. I see the other in myself and myself in others.