Quotes About Compassion

If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

We have a very disabled person in our family who is cared for by someone who lives a life most other people would find impossible, and her faith is making it a joy for her. And you can't argue with that. I mean, you can, but it's fruitless.

If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.

My existence is fuller of other people's experiences than my own. If they cut open my brain, these are what I would retain most.

One does not become fully human painlessly.

In some way, people believe that if you are permeable, if you are a good listener, you don't have the quality of somebody with a firm attitude. This is what, fundamentally, I got from my mother.

Compassion, hope, and opportunity are some of the most fundamentally American values that we should fight like hell to protect.

The role of the church and the government are fundamentally different. The church must always show compassion - always.

I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.

At their core, liberals assume that humans are fundamentally good and decent. This means that we believe that people are trying the best they can to make it and only ask for help when they really need it.

I still believe in God, I still believe in the fundamentals of that. But I base it on the fact God is love.

I've always said I would want to be a funeral director if I wasn't an actor.

Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about which they can know nothing and think they know a great deal.

I must strive to see only God in my friends, and God in my cats.

Every woman, or at least almost every woman, in England has, at one time or another of her life, charge of the personal health of somebody, whether child or invalid,—in other words, every woman is a nurse.

There is an old saying: No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.

Edith Ethel with the sweetest possible smile would beg the pillows off a whole hospital ward full of dying…. She

Then," Father Consett said, "if ye know him so well, Sylvia Satterthwaite, how is it ye can't get on with him better? They say: Tout savoir c'est tout pardonner." "It isn't," Sylvia said. "To know everything about a person is to be bored… bored… bored!

But charity begins surely with the char!

Oh, when you get down to the licklog, just to be a good friend. To be consequent to those around me. I guess I can't see any virtue higher than that.

Even the genuinely good cannot, unaided, learn to love. To penetrate beyond the absurdities, the vices, and, above all, the stupidities of human creatures, one must possess the secret of a love which the world has now forgotten. Until that secret shall have been discovered, all betterment in conditions of life will be in vain

Il giorno in cui voi non brucerete più d'amore, molti altri moriranno di freddo.

Perhaps you can feel if you can't hear," was her fancy. "Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted, and don't know why, when I am standing here in the cold and hoping you will get well and happy again.