Quotes about Compassion

A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.

The reason most of us do not see opportunities to serve is that we are continually thinking about ourselves instead of others.

we tend to overlook that it was for Jesus an excruciating experience beyond all we can imagine.

If Christ grieved over unrepentant Jerusalem, does He not grieve over unrepentant America as well? If we would fully enter into the fellowship of His sufferings, we must begin to see sin from His point of view.

How do we view those who do not show love for us? Do we see them as persons for whom Christ died or as persons who make our lives difficult?

It is so easy for us to stand apart from the culture and do no more than express self-righteous judgmentalism toward it. But those of us who grieve deeply over our own sin will not do this. Instead we will mourn over the sins and wickedness of our nation and will pray most urgently that, just as we want God to be merciful to us, so we want Him to be merciful to our nation as a whole. This will be another expression of humility in action.

God's love always transcends human love, even human family love, in its ability to reach out to those in need.

We are all sinners and are on an equal plane with one another. So we cannot exercise grace as God does, but we can relate to one another as those who have received grace and who wish to operate on the principles of grace.

The assurance here is that God will show compassion. It is not enough to say that He is compassionate, but He will show compassion.

If Christ grieved over unrepentant Jerusalem, does He not grieve over unrepentant America as well?

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.