Compassion Quotes

We must be instruments of God's compassion to those who are suffering.

Lord's love manifests in this world as compasssion.

Preacher is an instrument of compassion, not an instrument of wrath.

Love has these three stages, and compassion accordingly has three stages, and both can exist in different combinations.

A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.

I committed to doing everything I could to put compassion on the scientific map.

One must love the mirror in the face of truth, only if one loves the outlook of your inner compassion.

The church must always show compassion, always.

Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.

Compassion leads to freedom of discovering your voice, your gifts, and your purpose.

The best leaders blend courage with compassion.

Who can go to a rodeo and then criticize the hunter? ... an expertly placed bullet would be the best gift a rodeo horse could receive.

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it.

Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self

Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.

...it's what charity truly means, that compassion for each other's vulnerability

For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.

I practice loving-kindness meditation, which cultivates compassion and equanimity.

Nothing beats having a genuine compassion for human souls. If there is one thing I know, it's that people want to be acknowledged; they want to be heard; and above all, they want to be appreciated.

The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion.

In the '80s and '90s, there was some degree of compassion for people with HIV because there was visible human suffering.

Compassion is essential for any type of relationship between anybody – human to human, human to dog, human to cat, human to bird.

Each of us has a genuine capacity for love, forgiveness, wisdom and compassion. Meditation awakens these qualities so that we can discover for ourselves the unique happiness that is our birthright.

In a situation of potential conflict, let compassion guide you.

Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.

I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are using.

If I could have one wish, it would be for people to look at one another with open hearts and minds. Most of all, to look at each other with compassion. No matter who they are.

We don't have to surrender our souls or our compassion.

This dying forces you to look into yourself. And in this, compassion is the only way. Love is the only way.

The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.

Unless and until you have developed a heart inundated with compassion, do not sit on the seat of judgement.

I live in between My heart's compassion-rain And my life's oneness-gain.

Doubt is an old disease. Faith is an old medicine. Compassion is an old doctor. Concern is an old nurse.

A single God - touch From God's Compassion - Height Can transform man's unimaginable And countless weaknesses Into God's own infinite,Immortal and omnipotent Power.

God's Compassion - Eye gives us Not only one Chance But countless chances To change our wrong directions

When we look at the world through the eyes of the Master, the world will look so much more beautiful - not a nasty place, but a place filled with love, joy, compassion and all virtues

Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly.

When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.

Such sorrow— The cry of true compassion Sinks into my hard ego.

In the collective psyche it is being understood... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion.

Try to develop some genuine love and compassion, some real caring for others.

I want to be a man who mixes strengths and compassion. That's my magic elixir, so to speak.

Some people say that compassion is the purest form of love because it neither expects nor demands anything in return.

Shift from judgment to compassion to love.

Needed are...[souls] filled with compassion, that we might communicate not only eye to eye, or voice to ear, but in the majestic style of the Savior, even heart to heart.

I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.

Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.

Those to whom evil is doneDo evil in return.