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Quotes About Compassion

I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved.
~ C. S. Lewis
The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly or mean.
~ Kevin DeYoung
It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others.
~ James Smith
Save a life this Thanksgiving, and join me in starting a new tradition by adopting a turkey instead of eating one through Farm Sanctuary's Adopt-A-Turkey Project.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
~ Seneca the Younger
It's so simple to create a delicious holiday meal without animal cruelty. I promise no one will miss the turkey!
~ Alicia Silverstone
Every Thanksgiving we feed the homeless so they may join us as we celebrate other people finding a home.
~ Dana Gould
Because thankfulness is the tonic that always cures the cancers of greed, envy and jealously, it should be taken in liberal doses daily.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
You shouldn't just give during Christmas and Thanksgiving you should be giving all the time.
~ Alcurtis Turner
Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.
~ Mother Teresa
There can be no greater gift than that of giving one's time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.
~ Nelson Mandela
Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for life time
~ William Shakespeare
God lives, feels and suffers in every one of us, and in course of time, His attributes, knowledge, beauty and love will be revealed in each of us.
~ Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
~ Thurgood Marshall
There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form....Love alone is my religion.
~ Ibn Arabi
Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
~ Plato
The most deadly poison of our time is indifference.
~ Maximilian Kolbe
Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.
~ Leo Buscaglia
To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.
~ Alfred Adler
It's time for America to get right.
~ Fannie Lou Hamer
How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.
~ Morgan Freeman
There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian's love must be universal!
~ Jonathan Edwards
When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights.
~ George Burns
If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I'd still say no.
~ Bo Burnham