Top 100 Quotes About Compassionate Love
#1. That which gives us true freedom and true happiness is the compassionate love of Christ.
Pope Francis
#2. The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was the death of Christ on the cross.
Billy Graham
#3. With the beginning of a great & compassionate love, comes the growth of one's heart, and with that, a profound inner change. The way to opening the mind is often first through the heart. And once is the mind & heart are open, so many things become possible.
Irwin Corey
#4. Mercy is the very foundation of the Church's life ... The Church's very credibility is seen in how she shows merciful and compassionate love ... Mercy is the force that reawakens us to new life and instills in us the courage to look to the future with hope.
Pope Francis
#5. There is no such thing as tough love. Love is kind, love is compassionate, love is tender.
Heather Wolf
#6. We should be about our Father's business by pouring His compassionate love into aching and parched souls that have nowhere to turn, no one to love, and no one to care. Let them see Jesus in us. That is a living testimony.
Billy Graham
#7. You can be at all fronts, wherever there is grief, in the power of the cross. Your compassionate love takes you everywhere, this love from the divine heart. Its precious blood is poured everywhere, soothing, healing, saving.
Edith Stein
#8. May I live this day ... Compassionate of heart, / Gentle in word, / Gracious in awareness / Courageous in thought, / Generous in love / Eternal Echoes
John O'Donohue
#9. If you are passionate, compassionate, commanding, and just, everybody will feel the passion and they will follow you passionately.
Debasish Mridha
#10. The vegan lifestyle is a compassionate way to live that supports life, supports fairness and equality, and promotes freedom.
Robert Cheeke
#11. Dream a day
bright with kindness
and a deep compassionate ray.
Debasish Mridha
#12. To understand someone, we have to be loving, kind, and compassionate.
Debasish Mridha
#13. I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves.
Pam Houston
#14. It is not enough to be loving, you have to be sympathetic, kind, caring, and compassionate.
Debasish Mridha
#15. One good, compassionate and caring Self is a thousand times greater than all the fanciful, imaginary supernatural entities in the world.
Abhijit Naskar
#16. When we are being compassionate, we consider another's circumstance with love rather than judgement ... To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.
Jill Bolte Taylor
#17. Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love,
Anonymous
#18. Lying is wrong. When you tell a lie for the sake of sparing someone's feelings it is not suddenly right, but it is compassionate. And is not compassion a form of love? Love - the greatest of all virtues! So, my darling, I do wrong for you. I lie that you might feel loved.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#19. Be generous, kind and compassionate. These are true characteristics of successful people.
Archie Lee
#20. Let me be kind, let me be compassionate, let me be joyful, and let me sing a song of love.
Debasish Mridha
#21. Compassion is a beautiful grace that releases hate and fearful emotions. Through the power of compassion, when put in delicate circumstances with dysfunctional human beings, rather than loathing their behaviour, you can be compassionate to their internal suffering and love them unconditionally.
Christopher Dines
#22. I've found the best thing to do is to really be loving, kind, forgiving and compassionate with yourself. There are some wonderful practices for that which I talk about in Love For No Reason.
Marci Shimoff
#23. If everyone's purpose of life is to be happy, kind, caring, and compassionate, this world will become heaven.
Debasish Mridha
#24. Eloquent and moving ... an extraordinary testament to the enduring power of love - beyond faith and dogma. It reminds us of why we are here: to love and live fully, to be curious about all things, and to live a compassionate - and passionate - authentic life.
Mira Bartok
#25. There is an elegance to knowing who you are that will help you unfold a sweet tolerance for yourself. Knowing and liking yourself will then allow you to be kind and compassionate to others, deeply aware that they want the same things: love and contentment.
Margaux Bergen
#26. I was completely and irrevocably in lust; which tends to make a person impassive to others' pain. Love makes us compassionate. Lust makes us deaf to all but the lover.
Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney
#27. When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature. Judgment of ourselves and others disappears. Compassionate, discerning wisdom then enters the equation in all of our relationships.
Michael Beckwith
#28. Forgiving is easier when we understand that forgiving someone else means that we are freeing ourselves of an unnecessary burden.
Donna Goddard
#29. The kindness sent from one compassionate soul to another during the time of loss of one held so dear allows the sorrow-filled heart to open wide, filling the space of emptiness that grief may have created with a renewed sense of peace, compassion, and love.
Molly Friedenfeld
#30. to be compassionate with myself, even when my will is weak and my body fails me; to give myself freely to those I love, even when it means my heart may be broken; and to live fully and completely while I have the chance - just
Camille Pagan
#31. Today is the best day to be compassionate and kind.
Extend your hand, open your heart with a sympathetic mind.
Be the symbol of love, kindness, and compassion.
Debasish Mridha
#32. If you haven't walked in someone else's shoes, it's difficult to know the fit, so be kind and compassionate.
Heather Wolf
#33. I love Canada ... It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.
Yann Martel
#34. If I wasn't compassionate toward myself, no one else would be either. It had to start within.
Julie Flygare
#35. If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for if that did not happen, I would not be a Christian and Religious today ... The Lord has loved me so much: we must love everyone ... we must be compassionate!
Josephine Bakhita
#36. I spent my entire youth being in love with gay men because they were the most interesting and compassionate people I knew.
Jane Hamilton
#37. I'm passionate, I'm driven at my job and I also am compassionate with people. We all think we can save somebody that we love.
Jennifer Lopez
#38. If you are loving, kind, compassionate, and caring then you are almost God.
Debasish Mridha
#39. Compassion is like mother giving love to her children. Mother's ways are higher than others, even when everyone rejects, mother accepts with her arms open and wide.
Amit Ray
#40. Don't try to find a reason to be kind, just be kind, compassionate, and make a difference.
Debasish Mridha
#41. If one calls upon Him repeatedly, He becomes compassionate; and so a devoted attachment comes into being. This love for love's sake should be hidden from all eyes.
Sarada Devi
#42. Kindness is like a warm blanket of snow, softly covering and gently touching the heart.
Heather Wolf
#43. When you see the sadness in life, be compassionate. When you see the darkness, become the light and be passionate.
Debasish Mridha
#44. I don't have enough knowledge or wisdom to say anything profound to people all over the world. But maybe a simple "I love you," as corny as it may sound, shows them that I am willing to be compassionate, generous, and peaceful with them.
Richard Brancatisano
#45. Every person struggles with the self to find and kindle their special radiance, which comes from cultivating kindness, charity, and love.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#46. There is nothing more powerful against negativity than sustained compassion.
Odille Rault
#47. A priest is the God-bearer or Christ-bearer, a living Eucharist of the divine presence, bringing a sympathetic ear and a compassionate heart in which people find God's consolation, understanding and love.
Arthur Middleton
#48. If you wish the world to become loving and compassionate, become loving and compassionate yourself.
Gary Zukav
#49. You don't have to be perfect, just be loving and compassionate.
Debasish Mridha
#50. When your heart is full of kindness, mind is full of love, words are healing and compassionate, hands are extended for care, you are the purest temple, you are great and rare.
Debasish Mridha
#51. There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy - that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to the infinite heights to the holiness of God.
Pope John Paul II
#52. If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change!
Israelmore Ayivor
#53. Love is an act; the act of loving, the act of compassionate and the act of forgiveness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#54. I am not going to change who I am. I am human and I know how to love, and be kind, and be compassionate to those who are weaker than me. Just because I have power doesn't mean I have to use it!
Garth Nix
#55. Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he loves even a single being, Good will follow. But the Noble One with compassionate heart for all mankind, generates abounding good.
Gautama Buddha
#56. Psalm 103:8 The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.
Lysa TerKeurst
#57. See life and feel its pulses with the eyes of a compassionate mother.
Amit Ray
#58. One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace.
Dalai Lama XIV
#59. Sometimes those who love most deeply can't get past the weight of their own feelings.
James L. Halperin
#60. This was my voice, but perfectly wise, calm and compassionate. This was what my voice would sound like if I'd only ever experienced love and certainty in my life. How can I describe the warmth of affection in that voice, as it gave me the answer that would forever seal my faith in the divine?
Elizabeth Gilbert
#61. Until we learn to love each other, try to understand each other, and be compassionate to each other, peace will be an illusion.
Debasish Mridha
#62. The acronym COAL has been proposed for this attitude of compassionate curiosity: curiosity, openness, acceptance, and love:
Gabor Mate
#63. Opportunities to share love and compassion are all around us. Its going to take an army of compassionate people to heal our world. How will you show yours?
Renae A. Sauter
#64. My only advice is to feel with joy, listen with your heart, be kind to all, be compassionate when needed, and love endlessly.
Debasish Mridha
#65. You can't go to Heaven hating somebody. Forgive now. Be compassionate now. Be patient now. Be grateful now. Love Jesus and Mary now. Accept God's will now.
Mother Angelica
#66. Compassion isn't just about feeling the pain of others; it's about bringing them in toward yourself. If we love what God loves, then, in compassion, margins get erased. 'Be compassionate as God is compassionate,' means the dismantling of barriers that exclude.
Gregory J. Boyle
#67. If you can't find it in your own heart to be compassionate look in someone else's before giving up on love altogether.
Ashley Young
#68. My purpose of life is sweet indeed.
I like to help people when in need.
I am longing for happiness.
I am expressing my kindness.
I am expressing my love every day.
I am compassionate all the way.
Debasish Mridha
#69. Mostly your love is passionate force. But when this passionate force turns itself to be a compassionate force under the guidance of compassionate intelligence, that is where one becomes brahm giani. One knows all, one sees all, one says all.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#70. Let us help each other.
Let us serve each other.
Let us be kind to each other.
Let us be compassionate to each other.
And let us love the humanity and love each other.
Debasish Mridha
#71. Pain has a purpose. It makes us stronger. More compassionate. Able to love more deeply than we thought possible. If we let it, it makes us better people.
D. Nichole King
#73. It is such a beautiful life, but many people spend it worrying, burdened and frowning. You can easily see the beauty of life in the laughter of a child, the tenderness of a mother, the smile of a friend or the love of a compassionate wife.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#74. We can all benefit by learning to express and meet out physical needs in a loving, caressing and compassionate way
David Bresler
#75. Catherine de Hueck Doherty observes in The Gospel Without Compromise: The Gospel can be summed up by saying that it is the tremendous, tender, compassionate, gentle, extraordinary, explosive, revolutionary revelation of Christ's love.
Brennan Manning
#76. What would be the cumulative effect of millions of small, compassionate acts performed daily by us because of our heartfelt Christian love for others? Over time this would have a transformative effect upon all of our Heavenly Father's children through the extension of His love to them through us.
M. Russell Ballard
#77. Love has an immense ability to help heal the devastating wounds that life sometimes deals us. Love also enhances our sense of connection to the larger world. Loving responsiveness is the foundation of a truly compassionate, civilized society.
Sue Johnson
#78. Humanism is not a pompous philosophy to be talked and debated about by a handful of intellectuals - it is the purest form of moral compass, which defines the civilized heart of thinking humanity.
Abhijit Naskar
#79. I remember I've never shared tears with someone that longed
for (me) and loved me; I didn't know how to be compassionate.
(The truth, the lies & the love, p. 76)
Chimnese Davids
#80. 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.
Gary Zukav
#81. Feel compassionate to everyone because everyone is your either known or not yet known friend and everyone has pain and sufferings.
Debasish Mridha
#82. Love is being understanding and compassionate.
Haley Pullos
#83. It's a phenomenal experience jumping from the devious mind of a sorceress bent on conquering the world to the compassionate musing of a queen capable of healing life with a touch - all in a flicker of thought. That's why I love writing.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#84. Liberals don't love big government because they think it's efficient, compassionate, fair or even remotely useful. They support big government because they are guaranteed the support of nearly everyone who works for the government.
Ann Coulter
#86. Forgive and be compassionate with another in love, in peace and in faith.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#87. I thought ... it was easy when I thought it was something to do with the flesh. But what I'm seeing is more than that. It's love, and love isn't a sin. So how can God be so cruel as to give that feeling to two men or two women if it's a sin? I've always believed God to be compassionate. Loving.
Joey W. Hill
#88. There seems to be no doubt that love and compassion are good, in that they connect us more deeply to others.30 Given this situation, we can see that one could desire to become more loving and compassionate for purely selfish reasons.
Sam Harris
#89. Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.
Rick Warren
#91. We can exaggerate about many things; but we can never exaggerate our obligation to Jesus, or the compassionate abundance of the love of Jesus to us. All our lives long we might talk of Jesus, and yet we should never come to an end of the sweet things that might be said of Him.
Frederick William Faber
#92. Everyone is longing for love, everyone is suffering from the needs and wants, so be loving, kind, and compassionate to everyone.
Debasish Mridha
#93. All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.
Jimmy Carter
#94. Have a brave heart and a beautiful mind. Have a blessed life, compassionate and kind.
Debasish Mridha
#95. When we are kind and passionate to others, we become compassionate, this is one of the bases for uni-consciousness.
Debasish Mridha
#96. If God is compassionate, then certainly those who love God should be compassionate as well.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#99. - Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me.-
Alice Walker
#100. Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
