Quotes About Compassion

I can forgive him for what he's done wrong because that's the way of life.

To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are. Through loving a person we awaken their awareness of their own innate goodness. It is as though they cannot know how worthy they are until they look into the mirror of our love and see themselves.

Fortunately perfection is not a requirement for creating great relationships.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky

He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place.

Be silent" (Matt. 20:31; Mark 10:48; Luke 18:39). It is likely that the crowd was aware that Jesus was going to Jerusalem to present himself as king, and they did not want to be delayed by something as seemingly insignificant as a blind man. But Jesus again indicated by his attention that his kingdom is made up of such people.

The milk of human kindness was kept often in the larder, and the tea served with lemon.

When your life is shit, it's easy to forget just how many good people are in the world.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

God forgives and forgets sins, but He never forgets a good deed.

The price one pays for having a kind man at one's elbow.

Under many houses, people screamed for help, but no one helped; in general, survivors that day assisted only their relatives or immediate neighbors, for they could not comprehend or tolerate a wider circle of misery.

But in deed,A friend is never known till a man have need.

Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the Earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them.

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

Catholicism makes greater allowance than Protestantism for human frailty, and it has doubtless contributed toward much that is commendable in Italy: compassion, a reluctance to judge and a readiness to forgive—all themes that will recur in later chapters of this book.

I was picked up by a man in a hurry - a Franciscan monk who took pity on me...As we raced through the orange groves...I asked him to explain the difference between our god and theirs. His reply, "There is no difference; the difference is us.

If you think you are advancing toward unity with God or the absolute," he said, "and are not growing in love and charity toward your fellow person, you're just deluding yourself.

He who is less than just is less than man.

I'm annoyed by those who love mankind but are discourteous to people.

Humanity does not differ in any profound way; there are not essentially different species of human beings. If we could only put ourselves in the shoes of others to see how we would react, then we might become aware of the injustice of discrimination and the tragic inhumanity of every kind of prejudice.

In reality, the Us-and-Them or I-and-Thou dichotomies do not exist. There is only one universal We - one human family united by the capacity to feel compassion and to demand equal justice for all.