Quotes about Compassion

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

One cannot understand the power of grace until one has needed it. Or given it.

Forgiveness is alchemy. To take something so base and ugly that you don't even want to think of it and turn it into something noble and fine. That is true alchemy. Remember that. It's not always easy, but if you can do that, you'll have a happy life.

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest.

The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth.

Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

God has decreed it so, that where tenderness of heart is, there mercy shall follow...

Christ came down from heaven, and emptied himself of majesty in tender love to souls; shall we not come down from our high conceits to do any poor soul good? Shall man be proud after God hath been humble?

Some think it strength of grace to endure nothing in the weaker, whereas the strongest are readiest to bear with the infirmities of the weak.

Christ came down from heaven and emptied himself of majesty in tender love to souls. Shall we not come down from our high conceits to do any poor soul good? Shall man be proud after God has been humble?