Quotes About Compassion

You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.

It is our duty to love the unloved, help the helpless, and bring hope to the hopeless

Forgiveness is a powerful expression of the love within our soul.

A person who is true to himself likes and loves others for what they are and not what they have.

There is no love without suffering.

However much you may have expressed love through your life, you can always express love more.

Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love.

... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.

Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.

Things about yourself are never too terrible to say. It's only the things about the ones you love.

Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.

On Easter I do reflect on the fact that as a Christian I am supposed to love, and I have to say that sometimes, when I've listened to less-than-loving expressions by Christians, I get concerned.

May all that is not love within us and without be healed. May all that is love within us and without us be revealed. May every day of our lives be lived in love.

The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.

All our loves are contained in all our other loves.

I want a God big enough to love those who don't believe in him.

You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.

my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love.

Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.

We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred.

I don't enjoy watching people fail, but I don't feel sorry for them when they fail crossing my path, that I love.

Love is first and foremost exemplified by action - by practice - not solely by feeling.

Remember, care is a dimension of love, but simply giving care does not mean we are loving.