Quotes About Compassion

The key, of course, is loving the churchless for who they are rather than for what they can offer our church

It's all right, little woman, take my word for it. If I were you, I'd cry. You'll see things differently through your tears.

A good groom will rather stroke than strike.

How easy it is to hate oneself! True grace is to forget. Yet if pride could die in us, the supreme grace would be to love oneself in all simplicity—as one would love any one of those who themselves have suffered and loved in Christ.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity

Animals are my friends... and I do not eat my friends.

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.

If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth — beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals — would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them -- that's the essense of inhumanity.

Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.

Fair words never hurt the tongue.

If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us.

Who comes? - Approach! - 'tis kindly done: - My learn'd physician, and a friend, Their pleasures quit, to visit one

it is our sacred duty to make valuable the lives that these people are laying down.

Love does not mean the abandonment of justice and right; nor is it a sentimental benevolence which does not have the capacity for holy wrath.

is far more likely that the law of Christ is the law of love that Jesus said embodied the totality of the Old Testament Law (Mt. 22:40).18

Affection is the broadest basis of good in life.