 People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion. Author: Henry Ward Beecher |
| Were both the golden Indies mine, I'd give both Indies for a tear. Author: Isaac Watts |
| If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who deal likewise with their fellow men. Author: Francis of Assisi |
| Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion. Author: Chuck Colson |
| Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. Author: Frederick Buechner |
| God keeps all our tears in a bottle; so precious is the water that is distilled from penitent eyes; and because he will be sure not to fail, he notes how many drops there be in his register. It was a precious ointment wherewith the woman in the Pharisee's house (it is thought Mary Magdalene) anointed the feet of Christ; but her tears, wherewith she washed them, were more worth than her spikenard. Author: Abraham Wright |
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| The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them. Author: John Stott
Source: The Message of the Sermon on the Mount, IVP, 1978, p. 41. |
| America is a giving nation and very compassionate. Author: David Wilkerson |
| His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion. Author: D.L. Moody |
| No matter how low down you are; no matter what your disposition has been; you may be low in your thoughts, words, and actions; you may be selfish; your heart may be overflowing with corruption and wickedness; yet Jesus will have compassion upon you. He will speak comforting words to you; not treat you coldly or spurn you, as perhaps those of earth would, but will speak tender words, and words of love and affection and kindness. Just come at once. He is a faithful friend - a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Author: D.L. Moody |
