Compassion Quotes

"The hospital room and the funeral home are some of the best classrooms in which to learn pastoral ministry. I have held the hands of elderly saints and prayed over them as they took their last breath. I have won over my ‘enemies’ because I took the time to visit them when they were in the hospital. I have watched despair turn to hope as I’ve sat with a grieving widow and talked about Christ. The hospital room and the funeral home present pastors with learning opportunities that can’t be found elsewhere. Death reminds us of our frailty and brokenness. It jolts our hearts out of the delusion of invincibility. Death restores our focus on the eternal things when we are daily tempted to live in the temporal."

- Michael Carlino

"When a pastor senses he is growing frustrated with a weaker person or is growing impatient over the lack of change and growth, it’s helpful to take a step back and consider this question: How does my timeline for change contrast with God’s timeline? The truth is that we are never guaranteed a certain rate of growth that is the same for every individual. Each person is unique, facing different challenges in the fight against sin."

- Michael Carlino

"Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care."

- Horace Mann

"Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

- Albert Einstein

"Acts of Kindness: A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life."

- Roy T. Bennett

"I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food."

- Robert Orben

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one."

- Spock

"Compassion: that’s the one things no machine ever had. Maybe it’s the one thing that keeps men ahead of them."

- Dr. McCoy

"Compassion — That’s the one thing that no machine ever had. Maybe it’s the one thing that keeps men ahead of them."

- Leonard McCoy

"Above all else, a god needs compassion!"

- Dr. McCoy

"Somewhere out there someone is saying the three most beautiful words in any language:... Please help me."

- James Kirk

"Go ahead. I won't judge."

- Anna

"That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me."

- Jerry Seinfeld

"If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble."

- Bob Hope

"I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness."

- Carrie Fisher

"Do not be afraid to help one another. The devil is looking for rivalry, division, gangs. Keep working to make progress … I have seen how pain does not stifle the hope deep within the human heart and how life goes on, finding new strength even in the midst of difficulties."

- Pope Francis

"Letting go does not mean you stop caring. It means you stop trying to force others to."

- Mandy Hale

"We, as females, don’t have a forum to discuss the profundity of this loss. I lost nine children by miscarriage. It is no small thing, physically nor emotionally, yet we are made to feel it is something to bear alone and secretly with some kind of sense of failure. Instead of receiving the much needed compassion and empathy and healing which we so need."

- Sharon Stone

"Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle."

- Socrates

"Geese always support each other. When a goose gets injured two birds always accompany it down to the ground. Just as geese do, we must support each other."

- Emma Hayes

"Blaming the woman for the loss of a child is like blaming the soldier for the loss of his life in battle."

- Katherine Longshore

"Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you."

- Ephesians 4:31-32 (NIV)

"Be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you."

- Ephesians 4:32

"Mistakes and pressure are inevitable; the secret to getting past them is to stay calm."

- Travis Bradberry

"A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of."

- Nelson Mandela

"Love Entangles, Compassion Liberates."

- Sadhguru

"I know everyone is doing the best they can with the tools they have."

"People will believe you care if you just show up, even if you don't have much to say."

"It's harder to be kind than clever."

"Sometimes we love our children too much that we try protect them from all the hurts in the world, including disappointment. This is often a disappointment in itself."

- Unknown