Compassionate Understanding Quotes

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening.

forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice

At the end of the day, we're all brothers and sisters in God. What people do is none of my business.

We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge

When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

By taking a look at your anger it can be transformed into the kind of energy that you need - understanding and compassion.

The death of my own son has made me more sensitive. It's made me more compassionate.

I've had Christians treat me in a way that is so wrong and so vicious, I realized there's a difference between God's people and God.

Listening is a very deep practice. You have to empty yourself. You have to leave space in order to listen especially to people we think are our enemies - the ones we believe are making our situation worse. When you have shown your capacity for listening and understanding, the other person will begin to listen to you, and you have a change to tell him or her of your pain, and it's your turn to be healed. This is the practice of peace.

The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.

Love is something in the heart and in the mind, so why would you chastise anyone for that? And this is something that I feel very strongly about.

Tolerance is a sign of growth on the spiritual path

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

A huge part of real love is constant forgiveness.

No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces.

Only God knows hearts, and so only He can say, in truth, “I know how you feel.”

Change comes from listening, learning, caring and conversation.

We have to start seeing people as human beings. Our entire humanity depends on that.

Raising children has made me more patient and selfless.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.

Me, I want to bloody kick this moronic bloody world in the bloody teeth over and over till it bloody understands that not hurting people is ten bloody thousand times more bloody important than being right.

The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.