Quotes about Compassion

If something comes toward you with grace and can pass through you toward others with grace, you can trust it as the voice of God.

And to be fully honest, I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.

whatever that takes, and then has plenty left over for others. True heroism serves the common good, or it is not really heroism at all.

I'll say it again: God loves things by becoming them.

Thérèse, almost counter to reason, says: "Whoever is willing to serenely bear the trial of being displeasing to herself, that person is a pleasant place of shelter for Jesus.

Your heart needs to be broken—and broken open—at least once to discover what your heart means and to have a heart for others.

The second insight about steps and stages is that from your own level of development, you can only stretch yourself to comprehend people just a bit beyond yourself.

One of the few generalizations we can make in the field of universal spirituality is this: No one else is your problem.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.

Physicians, though they put their patients to much pain, will not destroy their nature, but will raise it up by degrees. Surgeons will pierce and cut but not mutilate. A mother who has a sick and self-willed child will not cast it away for this reason. And shall there be more mercy in the stream than there is in the spring? Shall we think there is more mercy in ourselves than in God, who plants the feeling of mercy in us?

LOVE is not only an Emotion.....It is the Highest Emotion.