| Greatest Gift |
| The greatest gift is compassion...not the greatest for the receiver, but for the giver. -- John A. Holmes ~ ~ ~ The kindness we extend to others in their hour of adversity will be returned to us at the time we most need it. -- Harriet Johns |
| And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith....and have not charity, I am nothing. And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. -- 1 Corinthians 13, Verses 2 & 13 |
| Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. -- Eric Hoffer ~ ~ ~ It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others. -- Author Unknown |
| I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human mind as the source of invention and ideas; and in the human heart as the source of national compassion. -- John F. Kennedy |
| The dew of compassion is a tear. -- Lord Byron ~ ~ ~ The problem with Sunday school lessons is how quickly they're dismissed come Monday morning. Compassion is not weakness and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism. -- Hubert H. Humphrey |
| Kindness and compassion are essential parts of God's work and ours here on earth. -- Rev. Billy Graham ~ ~ ~ My religion is kindness...it's about filling the human heart with compassion. -- Dalai Lama |
| If we give someone a piece of bread, that's kindness; but if we put peanut butter or jelly on it, that's loving kindness. -- Barbara Johnson ~ ~ ~ I define a religious person as one who holds both God and man in one thought at one time; one whose greatest passion is compassion. -- Abraham J. Heschel |
| Compassion cures more ills than condemnation. -- Henry Ward Beecher ~ ~ ~ Man may allow compassion to be driven from his heart, but God will never allow it to be driven from his soul. -- William Cowper |
| It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. -- John A. Holmes ~ ~ ~ After the words "to love," the most beautiful words are "to help." -- Bertha von Suttner |
| It is only by lifting others that you will rise. -- Robert Ingersoll ~ ~ ~ You have not lived a perfect day unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. -- Ruth Smeltzer |
| There is a destiny that makes us brothers, none goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others, comes back into our own. -- Edwin Markham |
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