Quotes About Compassion

No, he said, that is more than a horse can understand, but the enemy must have been awfully wicked people, if it was right to go all that way over the sea on purpose to kill them.

We have no right to distress any of God's creatures without a very good reason.

Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut the end off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?

Poor things! I know what sort of treatment they have had. If they are timid, it makes them start or shy; if they are high-mettled, it makes them vicious or dangerous; their tempers are mostly made when they are young. Bless you! they are like children, train 'em up in the way they should go, as the good book says, and when they are old they will not depart from it, if they have a chance, that is.

that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

Il mondo va male perché la gente pensa solo agli affari propri, e non si preoccupa mai di prendere le parti di chi è ingiustamente oppresso o di smascherare i malfattori. Per fortuna

do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a scam.

Hissiz insanlar? küçümseme. Ne yaÅŸad?klar?n? bilsen, sen de hissiz olmay? dilerdin.

unutmay?n ki gün gelecek hepimiz yapt?klar?m?z?n hesab?n? vereceÄŸiz, insanlara ve hayvanlara yapt?klar?m?z?n.

If I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation

The more happiness we bestow, the more we shall receive, even here; and the greater will be our reward in heaven when we rest from our labours." 

By his [God's] help I will arise and address myself diligently to my appointed duty. If happiness in this world is not for me, I will endeavor to promote the welfare of those around me, and my reward shall be hereafter.

How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!

The best way to enjoy yourself is to do what is right and hate nobody. The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live; and the earlier you become wise and good, the more of happiness you secure.

a soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger."  It isn't only in them you speak to, but in yourself.' 'Very true

No matter. There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.

And why should he interest himself at all in my moral and intellectual capacities: what is it to him what I think or feel? I asked myself. And my heart throbbed in answer to the question.

True benevolence and gentle, considerate kindness.

No one cares for the exterior.

The best way to enjoy yourself is to do what is right and hate nobody.

I can feel for anyone that is unjustly treated...and I can feel for those that injure them too.

It may seem a hard matter," says he, "to love our neighbours, who have so much of what is evil about them, and whose faults so often awaken the evil that lingers within ourselves; but remember that he made them, and he loves them; and whosoever loveth him that begat, loveth him that is begotten also.

There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.