Quotes About Compassion

Peter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ's having healed his mother-in-law.

Besides so long as a man has not been actually killed he is our fellow-creature, though perhaps a very unpleasant one.

There are two classes of people in this world, those who sin, and those who are sinned against; if a man must belong to either, he had better belong to the first than to the second.

A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.

Never before has the message of solidarity been so gravely needed. We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the eye of benevolence sparkles at the sight of happiness and plenty: in winter, compassion melts at universal calamity, and the tear of softness starts at the wailing of hunger and the cries of the creation in distress

Let him who desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.

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

I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

God's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.

I have no race prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

Worse, human rights lost their original connection with a larger egalitarian aspiration, focusing on sufficient provision instead.

example, "Love Finds a Way," pp.

My wife, poor wretch.

this disease making us more cruel to one another than if we are doggs.

You give me so much pleasure, why should I ever want to hurt you?

I was born," the Mouse said. "I must die. I am suffering. Help me. There, I just wrote your book for you.

Takin' care of that boy is the only thing I'm here for in this sea beaten world . . .

That horse dick he got swinging between his legs is just full of that there compassion

Loving someone... I mean really loving someone... means you are willing to admit the person you love is not what you first fell in love with, not the image you first had; and you must be able to like them still for being as close to that image as they are, and avoid disliking them for being so far away.