Compassionate Love Quotes

• 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

  Church, Foundation, New Life

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  One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Love, Life, Kindness

  Simone de Beauvoir (1975). “The Coming of Age”

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  Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "A Small Drop of Ink: A Collection of Inspirational and Moving Quotations of the Ages". Book by Linda Pendleton, 2003.

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• By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

  Thomas Browne

  Sadness, Compassion, Misery

  Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Kenelm Digby, Thomas Chapman (1831). “Religio Medici”, p.114

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• That which gives us true freedom and true happiness is the compassionate love of Christ.

  Pope Francis

  Giving, True Happiness, Christ

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• Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.

  Alexander Herzen

  Strong, Tears, Doe

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• 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

  Change, Heart, Profound

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• We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing. Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to become vessels of God's compassionate love for others.

  Clare of Assisi

  Love, Christian, Mean

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• 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

  Christ On The Cross, Grace, Infinite

  Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Love is being accepting of all of their flaws. Love is being understanding and compassionate. Love is realizing that they are going to make mistakes but knowing you can't hold it against them. Love is being constantly supportive.

  Haley Pullos

  Mistake, Love Is, Knowing

  "Haley Pullos Interview: Maranda Pleasant". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When we are in touch with God's joy and peace in us, then we become whole and holy persons. Like living torches we radiate the light and heat of God's compassionate love.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Love, Christian, Light

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