Quotes about Compassion

The greatest failure in human existence is the failure of Christ-followers to "love one another earnestly from a pure heart"5 and to heed the words of Christ: "By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."6

Does God love us even when our hearts are far from Him? The answer: Yes, He does!

It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

He has the valuable quality of being fond of people without wanting to turn them inside out.

Now, don't you worry, Mr. Appledore. I'm thinkin' the best thing I can do is to trundle the old lady down to my mother and take her out of your way, otherwise you might be findin' your Christian feelings gettin' the better of you some fine day, and there's nothin' like Christian feelin's for upsettin' a man's domestic comfort.

He had been taught that bread unshared is bread unblessed when someone else is hungry, whether man or beast, friend or stranger.

The memory of a good deed lives.

Acquaintance softens prejudice.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

There is always someone worse off than yourself.

Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.