Compassion Quotes

"If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive" "When we work from a place, that says, 'I’m enough,' we then stop screaming and start listening. We’re kinder and gentler to the people around us, and we’re kinder and gentler to ourselves" "Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help" "There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires." "In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do" "To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you." "I'd like to be a queen of people's hearts, but I don't see myself being queen of this country " "You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable " "Hugs can do great amounts of good, especially for children " "Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny " "Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together " "The culture of comfort, which makes us think only of ourselves, makes us insensitive to the cries of other people." "Today too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring hope to others." "Kindness is the number one trait I look for in other people." "There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world." "It isn't the size of the gift that matters, but the size of the heart that gives it." "My most important task is to be loving." "It’s easy to become disillusioned with church and religion. People get hurt and disappointed preachers sin and overlook hurting people and sound theology sometimes cowers to fears and selfish ambition. But at the core if you love Jesus you will love people." "Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity." "There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity."