Quotes About Compassion

We must love all human beings, giving even our last drop of blood for all our siblings of this great human family.

If a violent person wishes to attack us, let us send him a gentle phrase as this will defuse his violence.

The unexpected makings of a smile tugged at her lips. Here he was, hurt and wounded, and he was concerned about his horse. How very like a man.

When Taimour was hit by a bullet in the left shoulder, he began to stagger toward the man who shot him, reaching out with his hands. He remembered the look in the soldier's eyes. 'He was about to cry,' Taimour said three years later.

It hurts me to know that there are other women out there in the world that could make you happy.

We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation.

Better to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

Sometimes, and most frequently, compassion and complaint. In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour come, And age

ALMS  (ALMS)   n.s.[in Saxon, elmes, from eleemosyna, Lat.]What is given gratuitously in relief of the poor. It has no singular. My arm'd knees,Which bow'd

ALMSDEED  (ALMSDEED)   n.s.[from alms and deed.]An act of charity; a charitable gift. This woman was full of good works, and almsdeeds which she did.BibleActs,ix. 36. Hard favour'd Richard, where art thou?Thou art not here: murder is thy almsdeed;Petitioner for blood thou ne'er put'st back.Shakespeare'sHenry VI.

He is a good man, who grieves rather for him that injures him, than for his own suffering; who prays for him, that wrongs him, forgiving all his faults; who sooner shews mercy than anger; who offers violence to his appetite, in all things endeavouring to subdue the flesh to the spirit. This is an excellent abbreviature of the whole duty of a christian.Taylor'sGuide to devotion.   

If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies

Wicked people, I believe, my dear, are the severest punishers of those wicked people, who administer not to their own particular gratifications. Can mercy be expected from such? Mercy is a virtue.

TRUE GENEROSITY is greatness of soul. It incites us to do more by a fellow-creature than can be strictly required of us. It obliges us to hasten to the relief of an object that wants relief; anticipating even such a one's hope or expectation.

What good creatures are we women!

Unhappy, indeed, must the woman be, who has drawn upon her the helpless pity of the man she loves!

But gomers are not just dear old people," said Fats. "Gomers are human beings who have lost what goes into being human beings. They want to die, and we will not let them. We're cruel to the gomers, by saving them, and they're cruel to us, by fighting tooth and nail against our trying to save them. They hurt us, we hurt them.