Quotes about Compassion

The Mother asks the sacrifice of love.

An icon is not meant to be an idol. Just a reminder that love is greater than hate.

there are powers of love in the universe, and as long as you respond with love, they'll help you.

When two people, lovers, or sometimes friends, have an enduring care for each other, allow each other to be human, faulted, flawed, but real, then being human becomes a glorious thing to be. If the human race ever makes progress, that is how.

there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.

Expand my love, Lord, so I can help to bear the pain, help your love move my love into the tired prostitute with false eyelashes and bunioned feet, the corrupt policeman with his hand open for graft, the addict, the derelict, the woman in the mink coat and discontented mouth, the high school girl with heavy books and frightened eyes. Help me through these scandalous particulars to understand your love. Help me to pray.

I'll ask you a riddle. What do you have the more of, the more of it you give away?

We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.

With all our human struggling for power we cannot heal ourselves, so God, with wondrous love, gives away power, gives away himself so that we may be healed.

Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.

If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. That's why we still need

But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea.