Quotes About Compassion

But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.

The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.

But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.

We do not see into men's hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.

I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but... I promise you, the right man won't care.

Good men must be affectionate men.

Know this, that he that is a friend to himself, is a friend to all men.

When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.

One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.

The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often His mercy.

The good man brings good to things out of the good stored up in his heart.

If I am a Pariah, I will be all the more glad, for I am the disciple of a man, who - the Brahmin of Brahmins - wanted to cleanse the house of a Pariah. (here "the man" means Ramakrishna)

Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.

I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.

I taught myself to name my name, To bark back, loosen love and crying; To ease my woman so she came, To ease an old man who was dying.

The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.

For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.

I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human

For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.

Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.

Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.