Quotes about Compassion

fact is that no one gives grace better than someone who is convinced that he needs it, as well.

Scripture never looks down on the sufferer, it never mocks his pain, it never turns a deaf ear to his cries, and it never condemns him for his struggle. It presents to the sufferer a God who understands, who cares, who invites us to come to him for help, and who promises one day to end all suffering of any kind once and forever.

grace is greater than all of the sin we're grappling with.

I've accepted the fact that I'm going to be a sad man for the rest of my life because I get calls all the time of the saddest things that are happening in the church.

When you forget mercy, you name yourself as righteous and deserving, and you live an entitled and demanding life.

A joyful life of grace toward others grows best in the soil of gratitude.

We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness.

This means he fights for us even when we have given up the fight. Our desire to follow him may weaken, but he will never give up or turn his back on us. He knows us because he made us, which is why he sent his Son to be for us what we could not be for ourselves and to do for us what we could not do on our own.

The world we live in is a house of pain, and we cannot live in it without it touching us. You will never be smart enough to escape its grasp. From the violence of childbirth to cut fingers and scraped knees, from sibling mockery and peer rejection to familial brokenness, suffering is part of every phase of human existence. We enter life through suffering's door and we exit life through suffering's door.

God is not satisfied with you being a witness to his work of grace. He's called you to be an instrument of that grace to others.

when you forget the grace that you've been given, it becomes very easy to respond to the people around you with nongrace.

The appropriateness of my responses to others is directly related to the accuracy of my view of myself, and for that there is grace too.