I understand why many are still poor or struggling to make just a middle-income lifestyle. I'm a fiscal conservative, but I also have compassion for people who make financial mistakes.
Barack Obama was always special, you know? And not special, like, He's gonna be important, he's gonna be president. He was special in terms of his honesty, his sincerity, his compassion for other people.
When someone who is suffering looks to you for compassion, it's indeed a blessing; you are chosen to be their Light in a moment of sorrow.
People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.
I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the compassionate mother or whatever.
I mean these are universal themes. I try not to preach, for sure. I don't enjoy movies that preach - so I don't want to preach myself when I tell stories because I just feel all of these themes are built into us in terms of redemption and mercy and love and compassion and all these things. And the negative sides, as well.
The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same with regard to kindness, which must grow into maturity.
Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind! Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!
Man without compassion is the coldest thing ever in the universe!
If you do not feel the bitter cold inside you when you look at the poor trembling out of cold, it means you are lack of compassion; in other words, you are lack of everything!
If a fish feels sad when a fisherman's boat is sinking, and that fish owns a priceless treasure: The compassion! Have compassion, even for your enemies!
Moments of compassion are the most holy moments of life.
The day you stop being compassionate, your adjective of human drops!
A politician who has no compassion is nothing but an evil apparition; he is just a ghost, not a real man!
All the great feelings like goodness, love or compassion eliminate the gravity and thus the wingless man rises like a bird.
There is no rain beyond the clouds; there is no humanity beyond the compassion!
If you have nothing but compassion, you are still very wealthy; if you have everything but compassion, you are still very poor!
He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.
Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'
Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.
I really enjoy making people laugh; I've discovered that's a great technique. That's as powerful as stirring their sorrow, stirring their compassion, because that befriends you to them. It engages you with them and then you can come in; they will remember that point.
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.
The ultimate solution to POVERTY is found in the COMPASSION of God's people.
Compassion is easily forsaken in the midst of prosperity, even when this prosperity is God given.
The worship practices of the people of God are to be marked by devotion to Him and compassion to the needy.
