Quotes about Compassion

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

How incredible it is that in this fragile existence, we should hate and destroy one another.

No, it's not wrong to need people. But some of our biggest disappointments in life are the result of expectations we have of others that they can't ever possibly meet.

People who care more about being right than ending right prove just how wrong they were all along.

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. (Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)

We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.

Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.

Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers...To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy...If I try self consciously to become a person, I will never be one. The most real people, those who are able to forget their selfish selves, who have true compassion, are usually the most distinct individuals