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Quotes About Compassion

The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.
~ Brennan Manning
If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.
~ Richard Baxter
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God
~ John the Apostle
Leadership is about falling in love with the people you serve and the people falling in love with you.
~ Joyce Banda
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.
~ Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
To love the world is to be afflicted.
~ Yunus Emre
Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing.
~ Mikhail Naimy
Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
~ J. K. Rowling
Keep an open heart. We are wired to find love.
~ Helen Fisher
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
~ Emily Dickinson
Let love be your perfect weapon.
~ Andy Biersack
. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
~ Hermann Hesse
I love with the heart not the eyes.
~ Niall Horan
Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I demand from you deeds of mercy which are to arise out of love for me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse yourself from it.
~ Mary Faustina Kowalska
Never count your faults. Just see that your love for God is deeply sincere. For God doesn't mind your imperfections: He minds your indifference.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Those who would know much, and love little, will ever remain at but the beginning of a godly life.
~ Mechthild of Magdeburg
It is not love, but lack of love which is blind.
~ Glenway Wescott
The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
In the world of existence there is no more powerful magnet than the magnet of love.
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.
~ Dorothy Day
Whoever has a heart full of love always has something to give.
~ Pope John XXIII
Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley