When we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better.
The love of Christ comes from simple people who love simple people. Never be fooled by the spiritual leader who knows a lot but doesn't love a lot.
You don't have to act as if you care; you just have to care enough to act.
True Christian love is not derived from things without, but floweth from the heart, as from a spring.
Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which the genuinely despairing are treated: for they are apt to get lost in the great mass of pseudo-distress and manipulation, and often their conduct draws less attention precisely because it is less attention-seeking.
There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.
He loves me." "You sound surprised." "Nobody ever did. Not like this. It's easy to say, for some people. The words. But it's not just words with Roarke. He sees inside me, and it doesn't matter.
How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity.
