Quotes About Compassion

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.

I'm not an American hero. I'm a person who loves children.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

A little help is worth a great deal of pity.

Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.

Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.

Live and let live is not enough; live and help live is not too much.

Pity costs nothing and ain't worth nothing.

To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian-to help them is.

Where our bread is concerned, it is a material matter. Where our neighbor's bread is concerned, it is a spiritual matter.

To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.

Connected knowers do not measure other people's words by some impersonal standard. Their purpose is not to judge but to understand.

Sharing what you have is more important than what you have.

Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

Whoever in trouble and sorrow needs your help, give it to him. Whoever in anxiety or fear needs your friendship, give it to him. It isn't important whether he likes you. It isn't important whether you approve of his conduct. It isn't important what his creed or nationality may be.

I was hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: I was naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.