Quotes About Compassion

And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.

People love what they're used to, I guess." "No." You shook your head. "People should love what needs loving. That way they can save it.

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed ? but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

Some people say they love animals and yet harm them nonetheless; I'm glad those people don't love me.

Rescue is costly, but LOVE pays the price.

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.

Returning hate, adding deeper darkness to a night that is already void of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

God realization and self-realization are one and the same. God-realization is nothing but the ability and expansiveness of heart to love everything equally.

Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.

There is nothing that love cannot achieve, and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice.

Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.

How much love did you put into what you did?

If we know how to create the energy of love, understanding, compassion, and beauty, then we can contribute a lot to the world.

The main reason for healing is love.

I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.

Love creates bridges where it would seem they were impossible.

... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.

Being a Christian means having love. That is unbelievably difficult and, at the same time, incredibly simple.

Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.

Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.