Quotes about Compassion

We must be able to speak about our faith so that hands will be stretched out toward us faster than we can fill them.

What he needed desperately was someone to whom he might unburden himself, someone who would understand and know what to do, someone with the wisdom to remind him of what he needed to be reminded of just now—of God's grace—of the upside of God's love.

We who are sometimes obsessed with social conscience can no longer imagine a world without it, or a society that regards the suffering of the poor and others as the "will of God.

Although I know full well and hear every day that many people think little of me and say that I only write little pamphlets and sermons in German for the uneducated laity, I do not let that stop me. Would to God that in my lifetime I had, to my fullest ability, helped one layman to be better!

Of the many societal problems Wilberforce might have thought needed his attention, slavery would have been the least visible of all, and by a wide margin.

Taken all together, it's difficult to escape the verdict that William Wilberforce was simply the greatest social reformer in the history of the world.

The staff of such a monitoring center could represent the future "hospitalist"—not likely to be called a "home-ist"—a physician particularly trained and adept at the interface of machines and people. You might describe them as geeks with compassion, not necessarily an oxymoron.

As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.

Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.

When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.

If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.