Quotes About Compassion

To love those who despise us, and to give one's hand to the phantom who tries to frighten us?

I want to teach them what is understood by so few today, least of all by those preachers of pity: to share not suffering but joy.

He that feeds the hungry refreshes his own soul, says wisdom.

Aside from a few philosophers, men have always placed pity rather low in the hierarchy of moral feelings—and rightly so.

If I must have pity, then I do not want to be called such; and if I do have pity, then rather from a distance.

One has watched life badly if one has not also seen the hand that considerately--kills.

For in seeing the sufferer suffering—thereof was I ashamed on account of his shame; and in helping him, sorely did I wound his pride. Great obligations do not make grateful, but revengeful;

He had a deep respect for life, a special compassion for animals, and great awe and reverence for nature's complexity and abundance. While a brilliant inventor and designer himself, he always thought that nature's ingenuity was vastly superior to human design. He felt that we would be wise to respect nature and learn from her.

The reason that Fafhrd attached to Bwadres, rather than to any one of a vast number of livelier holy men with better prospects, was that he had seen Bwadres pat a deaf-and-dumb child on the head while (so far as Bwadres could have known) no one was looking and the incident (possibly unique in Lankhmar) had stuck in the mind of the barbarian.

Jonner's name had become a legend of the days when there were giants in the Earth, mighty men whose thinking had gone beyond the concept of nations to envision one race, beyond the creeds of churches to see one faith, and beyond the dogma of economics to state that as long as one hungry man existed on the face of the earth, no man with a full dinner in front of him was free to eat his meal in peace and safety.

Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make

A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.

Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the depth of our Lord and His broken life. Broken flowers give perfume. Broken incense is used in adoration. A broken ship saved Paul and many other passengers on their way to Rome. Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

The day that man forgets that love is identical with sacrifice, he will ask how a God of love could demand mortification and self-denial.

How can one love self without being selfish? How can one love others without losing self? The answer is: By loving both self and neighbor in God. It is His Love that makes us love both self and neighbor rightly.

as the mother knows the needs better than the babe, so the Blessed Mother understands our cries and worries and knows them better than we know ourselves.

Love of self without love of God is selfishness; love of neighbor without love of God embraces only those who are pleasing to us, not those who are hateful.

Love is a vicarious principle. A mother suffers for and with her sick child, as a patriot suffers for his country. No wonder that the Son of Man visited this dark, sinful, wretched earth by becoming Man - Christ's unity with the sinful was due to His love! Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.

The more He loved those for whom He was the ransom, the more His anguish would increase, as it is the faults of friends rather than enemies which most disturb hearts!

Love begins when duty finishes. It is a giving of the cloak when the coat is taken. It is walking the extra mile.

The very word mercy is derived from the Latin miserum cor, a sorrowful heart. Mercy is, therefore, a compassionate understanding of another's unhappiness.

Love itself starts with the desire for something good.