Quotes About Compassion

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations. Lincoln

Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.

Little value comes out of the belief that people will respond progressively better by treating them progressively worse.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!

Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out.

Joe trotted beside his father, who walked quickly. He was thinking that he would never be able to understand why grown-ups were so hard-hearted just when you needed them most.

Ah, Peggy, and how should I know? All I do know is that ye'd be feeding all the stray dogs and waifs and tramps in the world if ye had your way.

It is little use to blame a dog for having fear. A dog has so many braveries that its few fears do not cancel them out.

I stand for love and peace," he told the Times. "To my way of thinking, they're the same thing. But the man who said 'My country, right or wrong' made a slight error in judgment. My country wrong needs my help.

In our country, there is so much that's wrong with the way we deliver care to the aging, the very young, and the infirm. But you can't beat something with nothing. It is not enough to decry what's broken. You have to describe the alternative and make it possible for people to believe in it. To care.

hard for me to hear the constant refrain of "just preach the gospel." When the topic is abortion, nobody says, "just preach the gospel." We preach against abortion as if it's a gospel issue. When the topic is sex trafficking, no one says "just preach the gospel." We develop a battalion to go and get people out of sex trafficking. And we should because these are crucial issues. But so is racial justice!

The Woke Church is one that is aware of the urgent needs in its community and does more than just talk about those needs

we know how much we are allowing ourselves to experience the hesed of God based on how much we give it out to others.

When you actually see the suffering, you must lament. And what have we seen in our cities? Many of us have made the choice to get as far from the inner city as possible—to remove ourselves from the pain and suffering.

The words of Martin Luther King Jr. help to inspire us and give us much needed hope when we want to quit loving those who wrong us: "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

one of the most powerful definitions of leadership: "Leadership is taking the initiative for the benefit of others.

Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. 'Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.' Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home.

Speak out for those who cannot speak"—who in the church today realizes that this is the very least that the Bible requires of us?

Se estaba dirigiendo sobre todo a su propia gente, que entendía que expulsar a los judíos de la iglesia no era correcto. Entonces apeló a Romanos 14 y a la idea del «hermano más débil» en la iglesia, que requería gracia adicional y mejor lugar

Do the right thing, seek the truth, defend the weak, live courageous lives.

Most British citizens had never seen anyone branded or whipped or subjected to thumbscrews. They had no idea that conditions on West Indian sugar plantations were so brutal that most of the slaves were literally worked to death in just a few years and most of the female slaves were too ill to bear children.

The term "noblesse oblige"—the idea that those who have been blessed with much are to use it to help those who have not been so blessed—would not be coined for another half-century, and Wilberforce had yet to discover the relevance of any such idea to his own life.