For once the crofter was at a a rather loss for words, for to him nothing has ever been more completely unintelligible than the reasoning that is bred of tears.

But compassion isn’t about solutions. It’s about giving all the love that you’ve got.

Don’t pass along the beliefs and actions you disapprove of to your children. Loving-kindness is potent even when displayed during the so-called mundane tasks of daily existence. It’s so potent that if everyone could get...

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

She said, “You’re a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?””In compassion. Because of necessity.” Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar’s hands. “The same way you carry water.

What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God’s compassion for someone?

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the misery of unevangelized, uneducated, unmedicated, and unfed millions. The evidence that many professing...

May you comfort and healing.

New converts displayed a most un-Roman concern for the sick man.

There is one advantage to realizing that you’re never going to get it right: you do begin to stop expecting everyone else to get it right too, which makes for less frustration when other people...

True kindness ennobles the giver

Everyone carries a burden. Only the weight differs.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.

There are two choices: to be human, made in the image of God, with Jesus; warp to be in human, consumed with greed and on aware of the pain that is inflicted upon others. Put...

Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!

Everything is unfolding based on causes and conditions. Our happiness or suffering is dependent on how we relate to the present moment. If we cling now, we suffer later. If we let go and respond...

Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.

If only this great concern we have for our own sensitive feelings expanded to encompass the feelings of our fellow men.

And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don’t know how you knew, but you did, and...

He had the compassion of a vivisectionist.

The most reliable topic for small talk is the goings-on of stars whether they’re rising or falling, and whether nor not a particular story is truth or fiction. This is way out of balance. It...

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes...

Smile at strangers and you just might change a life.

Oh, why does compassion weaken us?’It doesn’t, really … Somewhere where it all balances out – don’t the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live? – if...

to suffer with” – and comfort and healings. God stands on the side of those who suffer. (pp.27-28/What Good Is God?)

Those who have endured the scars of life, sorrows of the Heart, the grief of loss, pain of body, mind or spirit, and have fathomed the unexplainable sufferings of life have the greatest capacity to...

Arrogance is someone claiming to have come to Christ, but they won’t spend more than five minutes listening to your journey because they are more concerned about their own well being, rather than being a...

Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering.

Before I lost my father, I never understood the rituals surrounding funerals: the wake, the service itself, the reception afterward,the dinners prepared by well-meaning friends and delivered in plastic containers, even the popular habit of...

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define...

A person experiences life as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the...

Lead with honesty, total integrity, compassion, patience and tolerance — toward yourself!

Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.

The weakest link in any chain of security is not the technology itself, but the person operating it; iron gates have no compassion to appeal to, nor fears to exploit, nor insecurities to use to...

Dear God, give bread to those who are hungry and a hunger and thirst for justice to those who have plenty. Amen.

As she stooped over him, her tears fell upon his forehead.The boy stirred, and smiled in his sleep, as though these marks of pity and compassion had awakened some pleasant dream of a love and...

Preparation is essential to achieving your goals in life. You don’t want to miss a great opportunity because you were not prepared. Determination and motivation will put you on the right track. You’ve got the...

Mindful of not thanking their benefactors, in case, like wights, they took offense, she added, “Your kindness is gratefully acknowledged. May your trees be forever fruitful.

When there’s that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

We only have what we give.

Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement....

No one can hurt you without teaching a life’s lesson. So accept it with love and kindness.

True compassion does not sit on the laps of renovation; it dives with an approach to reconstruction. Don’t throw a coin at a begger. Rather, destroy his source of poverty.

Sometimes when I meet old friends, it reminds me how quickly time passes. And it makes me wonder if we’ve utilized our time properly or not. Proper utilization of time is so important. While we...

The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. To be objective, to use one’s reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if...

Culture now spreads at central nervous system speed. It’s a shame that compassion doesn’t.

Let us think about our attitude of compassion and understanding with which we choose to respond to what is happening around us

We represent the true human condition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. . . . Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world.

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

In the midst of her tears came the thought, “When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;” and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said...