Quotes About Compassion

We are here to serve, but the beauty is that when we serve others we also serve ourselves, what we give out is what we get back. The best way then actually to get what you want from life is to help others to get what they want. So why not help more and why give out rubbish when that is exactly what we will get back?

Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell.

For pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.

She wolde wepe, if that she saugh a mousKaught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde.

It seems to me that poverty is an eyeglass through which one may see his true friends.

One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I'd guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.

If we meet each other in hell, it's not hell.

In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.

Trust becomes the only road home, back to love.

You don't change the world by telling it what to do, sitting at home, and telling it what you believe. You believe by throwing yourself into it. Making a leap, getting involved, then waiting, taking some one person's place for a while, one suffering person at a time.

Most of them don't mind too much the idea of a God existing somewhere, just so long as He's indulgent.

Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

A man has virtues enough if, on account of them, he deserves forgiveness for his faults.

Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. —Gautama Siddhãrta

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

Those [Christians] had left to love on earth were then: brothers and sisters in hatred, whom they called then: brothers and sisters in love.

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

You cannot drive people to do things which are right, but you can love them into doing them, if your example is of such a character that they can see you mean what you say.

This is our faith: We may not always believe in ourselves, but we will never stop believing that to do good things for another in need is to see the face of God in everyone we help by sharing even the smallest bit of faith that still remains in our hearts.

The living need charity more than the dead.

Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.

What I wish above everything at this moment is that I could save myself the pain of seeing the pain on your face.