Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

The role of the church and the government are fundamentally different. The church must always show compassion - always.

Kindness is wisdom.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It's not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline - and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

There's something about compassion that causes society to say, 'We're going to take this person seriously.' Take Mother Teresa. She was confrontational on abortion, but she wasn't rejected by society.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.'

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

God's mercy is fresh and new every morning.

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

God's mercy is fresh and new every morning.

The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.

You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

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

Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.

There is no mercy in a system that makes health care a luxury. There is no mercy in a country that turns their back on those most in need of protection: the elderly, the poor, the sick, and the suffering.

It's only through Christ that we can take full advantage of God's mercy and forgiveness through repentance in Jesus' name.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that.

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.

A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.