Quotes about Compassion

The central mark of a maturing Christian, and of a maturing congregation, is that they increasingly love others as Christ loves them.

This is what the kingdom of God looks like. It looks like humility. It looks like grace. It looks like service. It looks like Jesus.

If we only love those who agree with us, we are in fact not loving others at all; we are only loving the (assumed) "rightness" of our own ideas!

In the kingdom that Jesus inaugurated it is precisely a person's love for their enemies and their pledge to never retaliate that is the ultimate sign of their loyalty to God.

God wants everyone to be saved. He takes no delight in the destruction of any soul, however wicked (Ezek. 18:32; 33:11). From

We are to see a need and meet it—no questions asked. We are to love even our enemies with an unconditional, nonjudgmental love, and, thereby, offer everlasting life to all who are thirsty. To do this means we must refrain from doing what Jesus never did: namely, positioning ourselves as wiser, morally superior guardians and "fixers" of others. Moral guardianship is what the Pharisees did—not Jesus.

Every individual we meet is different than we are. Members of the same family differ one from the other. Friend differs from friend, husband from wife, sister from brother, nation from nation. All these differences make 'feeling' love difficult and isolated to specific individuals according to our tastes and their personalities.

I pray for those we have lost but more personally for those who have lost - the families of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and so many before you. I know how it feels to get that call that someone you love isn't coming home.

When someone is in crisis, don't start by teaching, leveraging, or explaining. Just be with.

We do not want to have mercy for the things God has under judgment. We do not want to fall in the ditch on the otherside of unsanctified mercy.

Deze hele strijd ging om mensen en toch werden mensen vaak als het minst belangrijk beschouwd. Wij strijden vaak meer voor waarheden, dan voor mensen voor wie de waarheden gegeven zijn. Wij strijden voor bedieningen over de hoofden van de mensen heen, voor wie deze bedieningen zijn

Love passionately bears with others for as long as patience is needed; love doesn't demand others to be like itself, but is so focused on the needs of others that it bends over backwards to become what others need it to be; love is not ambitious, self-centered, or so consumed with itself that it never thinks of the needs or desires that others possess.…