Quotes about Compassion

The second insight about steps and stages is that from your own level of development, you can only stretch yourself to comprehend people just a bit beyond yourself.

One of the few generalizations we can make in the field of universal spirituality is this: No one else is your problem.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.

Physicians, though they put their patients to much pain, will not destroy their nature, but will raise it up by degrees. Surgeons will pierce and cut but not mutilate. A mother who has a sick and self-willed child will not cast it away for this reason. And shall there be more mercy in the stream than there is in the spring? Shall we think there is more mercy in ourselves than in God, who plants the feeling of mercy in us?

LOVE is not only an Emotion.....It is the Highest Emotion.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others. Humble people are so focused on serving others, they don't think of themselves.

The purpose of influence is to speak up for those who have no influence. (Pr.31:8) It's not about you.

We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.

With his arms outstretched, nailed to the cross, Jesus was saying, "This is how valuable you are to me. I love you this much! I'd rather die than live without you." You are priceless.

It's not about me.

Your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.