Quotes about Compassion

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them.

Never find your delight in another's misfortune.

remarked: [I]f our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements , etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.4

An honest answer is an act of love.

What do you do when you are misunderstood? Elijah impressively set a standard for how one should respond when

Not keeping a record of wrongs is also a refusal to keep a record of the things you have done right. It is just as dishonoring to God's grace to keep a record of your rights as it is to keep a record of others' wrongs. Why? Because it is a form of self-exaltation. You are implicitly saying, "I told you so," in order to make someone else look bad. It takes spiritual maturity to refrain from saying, "I told you so.

the greater the sin you forgive them of, the greater the measure of the Spirit that will come to you.

If our marriages are to survive the long haul, we certainly must have a love that keeps no record of wrongs.

face up to the seriousness — possibly a high-handed wickedness — of what they did; and still to forgive. This