Quotes about Compassion

Having looked the beast of the past in the eye, having asked and received forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.

We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

Christians crawled out of the woodwork when crisis hit... Christians weren't roaches.

Distant or near, in joy or in sorrow, each in the other sees his true helper to brotherly freedom.

There remains an experience of incomparable value. We have for once learned to see the great events of world history from below, from the perspective of the outcasts, the suspects, the maltreated in short, from the perspective of those who suffer. Mere waiting and looking on is not Christian behavior. Christians are called to compassion and to action.

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.