Quotes About Compassion

Lord, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love, with all my heart. With all my heart.

God is love; to do his will is to scatter love in handfuls of blessing on a weary world.

Love begins with listening.

When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one, just as it is with God's love for us.

Without humility you can't love. Love means looking beyond the self to the other.

The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

May your thoughts, words and actions arise from love.

Real love cannot be silent in the face of injustice.

We have a choice every day between fear and love.

Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken

Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.

You know my God. My God is called love

Love that cares, listens.

Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.

In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly

That which gives us true freedom and true happiness is the compassionate love of Christ.

To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

Love all creatures! Love everything that has life!

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

Compassion is the greatest form of love humans have to offer.

If you can grow in love, you will grow in awareness. If you grow in awareness, you will grow in love.

Look at the people you don't love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart.

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

It doesn't matter what it is, it becomes better with love.