Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Compassion
Passion drives perfection.
– Rick Warren
Inspiration | Passion
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
– George Washington Carver
Compassion | Life | Youth
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
– Zig Ziglar
Helping | Compassion | Success
Compassion costs. It is easy enough to argue, criticize, and condemn, but redemption is costly, and comfort draws from the deep. Brains can argue, but it takes heart to comfort.
– Samuel Chadwick
Compassion | Comfort | Redemption
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.
– William Wilberforce
Compassion | Service
To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people’s places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Compassion
A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
– John C. Maxwell
Leadership | Vision | Passion
None knows the weight of another’s burden.
– George Herbert
Compassion
Remember that even Jesus’ most scathing denunciation – a blistering diatribe against the religious leaders of Jerusalem in Matthew 23 – ends with Christ weeping over Jerusalem. Compassion colored everything He did.
– John MacArthur
Compassion
A passion for God isn’t necessarily the same as abiding in God; it must be coupled with obedience to be true love for God.
– Ed Cole
Passion | Obedience
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
– Daniel Webster
Children | Self-control | Passion
Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.
– David Brainerd
Holiness | Passion
The secret of the Christian’s passion is simple: Everything we do in life we do it as to the Lord and not to men.
– David Jeremiah
Christianity | Passion
You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you.
– George Whitefield
Compassion
The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.
– John Stott
Compassion
The eyes of a man in the jaundice make yellow observations on everything; and the soul tinctured with any passion diffuses a false color over the appearance of things.
– Isaac Watts
Reasoning | Passion
The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.
– Isaac Watts
Religion | Passion
Pursue not a victory too far. He hath conquered well that hath made his enemy fly; thou mayest beat him to a desperate resistance, which may ruin thee.
– George Herbert
Compassion | Enemies
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.
– Frederick Buechner
Compassion | Peace
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
– William Cowper
Compassion | The Heart
In Scripture we read of two kinds of men–the spiritual man controlled by the Holy Spirit, and the “carnal” man who is ruled by his passions.
– David Jeremiah
The Holy Spirit | Carnality | Passion
Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul.
– Alexander MacLaren
Passion
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.
– Dwight L. Moody
Compassion
If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.
– William Wilberforce
Compassion
Africa, your sufferings have been the theme that has arrested and engaged my heart. Your sufferings no tongue can express, no language impart.
– William Wilberforce
Compassion
If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever.
– George Whitefield
Compassion | Evangelism
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
– John Quincy Adams
Truth | Passion
Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
– George Washington
Compassion
So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the Trade’s wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for Abolition. Let the consequences be what they would, I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.
– William Wilberforce
Compassion | Justice
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passions.
– Thomas Aquinas
Discretion | Passion
America is a giving nation and very compassionate.
– David Wilkerson
America | Compassion
The Holy Spirit cannot conquer the world with unbelief, nor can He save the world with a worldly Church. He calls for a crusade, a campaign, and an adventure of saving passion. For this enterprise He wants a separated, sanctified and sacrificial people.
– Samuel Chadwick
The Holy Spirit | Holiness | Passion
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.
– Abraham Wright
Compassion
Were both the golden Indies mine, I’d give both Indies for a tear.
– Isaac Watts
Compassion
In any relationship, there will be frightening spells in which your feelings of love dry up. And when that happens you must remember that the essence of marriage is that it is a covenant, a commitment, a promise of future love. So what do you do? You do the acts of love, despite your lack of feeling. You may not feel tender, sympathetic, and eager to please, but in your actions you must be tender, understanding, forgiving and helpful. And, if you do that, as time goes on you will not only get through the dry spells, but they will become less frequent and deep, and you will become more constant in your feelings. This is what can happen if you decide to love.
– Tim Keller
Love | Marriage | Passion
His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion.
– Dwight L. Moody
Compassion
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
– Thomas Aquinas
Virtue | Passion
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
– Francis Schaeffer
Compassion
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
– C.S. Lewis
Affliction | Passion
Human nature, if it is healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.
– Oswald Chambers
Obedience | Passion
May I govern my passions with absolute sway, and grow wiser and better as life wears away.
– Isaac Watts
Life | Wisdom | Passion
Heat of passion makes our souls to chap, and the devil creeps in at the crannies.
– Thomas Fuller
Satan | Passion
Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.
– Thomas Adams
CharacterPassion
Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God’s thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the things He loves, to will the things He wills.
– Richard J. Foster
Prayer | Passion
There is a third quality to friendship, and it is not as easy to put into a single word. The right word, literally, is ‘sympathy’ – sym-pathos, common passion. This means that friendships are discovered more than they are created at will.
– Tim Keller
Friendship | Passion
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.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Compassion
All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person’s place.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Compassion
Even in God’s work, these Christians are so propelled by their zeal and passion that they simply cannot stay for God to make clear His will and way.
– Watchman Nee
Zeal | Passion
If these little sparks of holy fire thus heaped up together do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy.
– Jeremy Taylor
The Holy Spirit | Fire | Passion
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
– Thomas Fuller
Patience | Passion
When passion is on the throne reason is out of doors.
– Matthew Henry
Reasoning | Passion
For the soul of a person to be inflamed with passion for the living God, that person’s mind must first be informed about the character and will of God. There can be nothing in the heart that is not first in the mind. Though it is possible to have theology on the head without its piercing the soul, it cannot pierce the soul without first being grasped by the mind.
– R. C. Sproul
Passion | The Heart
O if once our hearts were but filled with zeal for God, and compassion to our people’s souls, we would up and be doing, though we could but lay a brick a day, and God would be with us.
– William Gurnall
Compassion | Zeal
Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.
– Chuck Colson
Compassion
Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.
– Joseph Hall
Character | Foolishness | Passion
I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.
– Thomas Aquinas
Compassion
A trade founded in iniquity, and carried on as this was, must be abolished, let the policy be what it might, let the consequences be what they would, I from this time determined that I would never rest till I had effected its abolition.
– William Wilberforce
Compassion | Achievement
One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
– George Macdonald
Selfishness | Passion
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man’s wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
– Augustine
Adultery | Sin | Passion
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.
– Abraham Wright
Compassion
All other passions build upon or flow from your passion for Jesus. A passion for souls grows out of a passion for Christ. A passion for missions builds upon a passion for Christ. The most crucial danger to a Christian, whatever his role, is to lack a passion of Christ. The most direct route to personal renewal and new effectiveness is a new all-consuming passion for Jesus. Lord, give us this passion, whatever the cost!
– Wesley L. Duewel
Passion
Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul.
– Alexander MacLaren
Passion
I have but one passion – it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ.
– Assorted Authors
Evangelism | Passion
Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.
– John Wesley
Reasoning | Passion