Quotes about Compassion

The great commandment is not thou shalt be right. The great commandment is to be in love.

If you go to heaven alone, wrapped in your private worthiness, it is by definition not heaven. If your notion of heaven is based on exclusion of anybody else, then it is by definition not heaven. The more you exclude, the more hellish and lonely your existence always is. How could anyone enjoy the "perfect happiness" of any heaven if she knew her loved ones were not there, or were being tortured for all eternity? It would be impossible.

The more that we can put together, the more that we can "forgive" and allow, the more we can include and enjoy, the more we tend to be living in the Spirit.

When the self is surrendered—when we're not too tied to our own agenda, anger, fear, or desire to make things happen our way—we are truly open to love. But be aware of the heart's propensity to clench and close.

but I do believe that the only way out of deep sadness is to go with it and through it.

Jesus touched and healed anybody who desired it and asked for it, and there were no other prerequisites for his healings.

If something comes toward you with grace and can pass through you toward others with grace, you can trust it as the voice of God.

And to be fully honest, I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.

whatever that takes, and then has plenty left over for others. True heroism serves the common good, or it is not really heroism at all.

I'll say it again: God loves things by becoming them.

Thérèse, almost counter to reason, says: "Whoever is willing to serenely bear the trial of being displeasing to herself, that person is a pleasant place of shelter for Jesus.

Your heart needs to be broken—and broken open—at least once to discover what your heart means and to have a heart for others.