Quotes about Compassion

Whatever the reason is, I am happiest when connecting with the human experience. It lets me know that I'm not alone in this world.

It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.

The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.

As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, Hate generalizes, love specifies. That's what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies.

God is loving you into better relationships. He is loving you into being a more loving person. The more we grow in love, the less offended we become. The less offended we become, the more easily and quickly we get healed when people do wound us.

If you are easily offended it proves one thing: You don't have a relationship with the Comforter, because He can kiss you and it will disappear. You can give that to the Lord. You have no right to be wounded; you have a right to be healed. You don't have a right to be offended; you have a right to be compassionate and forgiving. Exercise that right!

I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

What are others worth that they have the nerve to sneer at any human being?

Regret your own actions, if you like that kind of wallowing in self-pity, but never, never despise. Never presume yours is a better morality.

he forgot for the while what experience had taught him-that no human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

You think you are so bad,' she said, 'but it was only because you couldn't bear the pain. But they can bear pain - other people's pain - endlessly. They are the people who don't care.