Quotes about Compassion

Live, let live, and help live

I will spend my heaven doing good on earth.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

The essence of love is kindness.

Find someone worse off than you and help them. It will put your life in perspective.

Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others.

The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually.

You have the Holy Spirit inside you, empowering you and enabling you to live on mission. In a world at its worst, live out your calling to be a Christian at your best in the age of outrage.

Prayer: outputting spiritual/gospel concern.

In prayer, we bring to Jesus those anxieties and insecurities that would otherwise fuel our outrage. The discipline of prayer prevents us from venting, flaming, or savaging others, either in person or online. I've never seen people go after someone they're praying for.

A disciple who grows spiritually will have a growing desire to be a witness and reach out to those who are lost.

it's not enough for Christians merely to recognize that the world isn't what it ought to be and that people are suffering in ways they shouldn't have to suffer." Instead, our "sorrow and indignation" should prompt us to act in ways that "subvert" that brokenness.