Quotes About Compassion

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity.

Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.

Mercy is stronger than your sword.

I've learned... That I can always pray for someone when I don't have the strength to help him in some other way.

Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.

I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.

Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in!

We are all the same. We have the same hopes, fears, strengths, and weaknesses.

At the toughest times I recalled how the children and the elderly looked at me with trustful eyes. Your faith has given me strength.

When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner.

We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.

That's what friends are for-to be strong for you when you need a moment to find your own strength.

A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.

Inner values like friendship, trust, honesty and compassion are much more reliable than money - they always bring happiness and strength.

I started understanding that my strength is my gentleness. A leader isn't a dictator, a leader is a servant.

Most of us, I believe, admire strength... Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words like aggression or even violence.

If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and for others.

My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable.

Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.

I used to think you were weak and just didn't fight back ... but now, honestly, I think you're actually pretty tough. It takes a hell of a lot of strength to not complain and lash out.

We must help to the limits of our strength. And we will.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

You must give and receive love only when doing so doesn't hurt others. That's the ethical path, and you should gain strength from walking it.

Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to see in a new way by developing a stillness of mind and a strength of heart.