Compassion Quotes

Silence frees us from the need to control others. One reason we can hardly bear to remain silent is that it makes us feel so helpless. We are accustomed to relying upon words to manage and control others. A frantic stream of words flows from us in an attempt to straighten others out. We want so desperately for them to agree with us, to see things our way. We evaluate people, judge people, condemn people. We devour people with our words. Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit simply because it puts the stopper on that. When we become quiet enough to let go of people, we learn compassion for them.

~ Richard J. Foster

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

~ Bryant Mcgill

P71- if i do not love the world if i do not love life if i do not love people i cannot enter into dialogue.

~ Paulo Freire

The moral crisis she'd just gone through made her feel indulgent toward the faults, the delinquencies of others. How thoroughly a human being can be buffeted and over-mastered by fate had been borne in upon her with appalling force.

~ Emmuska Orczy

In a world of limited resources, our wealth is at the expense of the poor. To put it simply, if we have it, others cannot.

~ Richard J. Foster

Kind words are salve to a cankered soul, spread generously.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I am not posing these questions only to the world at large. I query us who own Christ as our life. Can God be pleased by the vast and increasing inequities among us? Is he not grieved by our arrogant accumulation, while Christian brothers and sisters elsewhere languish and die? Is it not obligatory upon us to see beyond the nose of our own national interest, so that justice may roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever flowing stream? Is there not an obligation upon us to do justice, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God is we want to live in his wonderful peace?

~ Richard J. Foster

Tears are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of compassion.

~ Jim George

To be good, is to be like God. Our purpose in life is to try and reach that standard. We will always fall short, but in our lifetime if we try our best to make a world where everyone is treated equally with respect, empathy, and compassion, the big payoff is that we will be rewarded with that exact thing in Heaven.

~ Lewis N. Roe

Those who’ve left their bootprints in the trenches are those who value human life most. They get unwanted glimpses into the savage nature we really have underneath all the expensive clothes and moisturized skin. This of course, rules out the politicians, feminists, and liberals who are far too cozy hiding behind their daddies’ wallets and sophomoric mentalities as those who feign having tasted the true consequence of a single blood-drop darkening the sand.

~ Bruce Crown

We all have a grain of god in us. We do get opportunities to realize it, when moments in life demand selfless deeds of compassion from us. But we often squander them.

~ Ashok Kallarakkal

Anybody Can Hate. Hate is Easy...Living Side by Side with Compassion, Tolerance and Respect Takes Real Courage.

~ Jeffrey A. White

He keeps his voice kindly but remote. A cross between a pedagogue, soothsayer, and a benevolent uncle – that should be his tone.

~ Margaret Atwood

The world hangs like a heart-shaped locket around my neck.

~ Pam Farrel

Kindness is the way you live your life every day.

~ Jeffrey A. White

As the aperture of your heart opens to love you will receive more of the light of compassion, acceptance, gentleness, grace and understanding.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Nothing on earth is as unbearable as dealing with other people if you are a person who lacks compassion and understanding.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Love is that which gives of itself.

~ Vivian Amis

Lead with honesty, total integrity, compassion, patience and tolerance — toward yourself!

~ Bryant Mcgill

What is success? What does it mean that someone is successful? Success can be different things to different people. For us being successful is a conscious choice to be oneself. Success does not have to be dependent on any external circumstances and rules dictated by the mainstream society. It does not matter where we live and what we possess. When we love and support ourselves unconditionally choosing to be ourselves as much as we can, this is for us, Being Successful.

~ Raphael Zernoff

A tearless heart is a callous heart.

~ Jim George

Patience is not a natural gift of a leader, it is a learned one. The more you broaden your awareness, understanding, and compassion, the better results you will get out of your people.

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Have compassion for people as long as you are one of them too.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The world is focused on success, which is defined as riches and fame. Define your success as a person of values. Make love, compassion, and kindness your only success and everything else will be available to you.

~ Raphael Zernoff

Dare to love every person, including yourself.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If it were true love, he would never make you sacrifice your dignity to be with him. He would respect you and treat you as if you were sacred to his heart. If he loved you as dearly as he professes to love Christ, then he would never let anyone that loved him suffer or lower their self worth to be with him. True love is compassion, respect and honorable acts that prove love.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It's easy to make a mess when you're not the one who has to clean it up.

~ Criss Jami

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.

~ Ignatius Of Loyola

By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.

~ Dale Carnegie

Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

~ Tony Campolo

Nowhere in the bible did it say, “Only show compassion and empathy to those you can trust.” If we did that, we would be burying homeless people every day.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

~ Nadine Gordimer

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

~ Bell Hooks

In every guilty man, there is an element of innocence. This is what makes any absolute condemnation revolting. We do not think enough about pain Albert Camus

~ Robert Zaretsky

[P]eople think of compassion as, like, kindness. The image comes to mind of some nice New Age guy bending to something with a look on his face like he’s about to cry. And I don’t think that’s it. I think of it more as a quality of openness that comes with being in a state of unusual attentiveness.

~ George Saunders

The best way we can honor the pioneers—the best way for us to repay our debt of gratitude to them—goes beyond making and hearing speeches, marching in parades, or attending fireworks celebrations. “The best way we can show our gratitude is by incorporating into our own lives the faithfulness to God’s commandments, the compassion and love for our fellowmen, the industry, optimism, and joy the pioneers demonstrated so well in their own lives.

~ President Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Ask the poor. They'll tell you who the christians are.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Through Compassion and Care we are compelled to random acts of kindness and demonstrations of love.

~ Jean Hamilton-Fford

Compassion is the way you live your life every day.

~ Jeffrey A. White