Quotes About Compassion

There is no real religious experience that does not express itself in charity.

Charity begins at home, and usually stays there.

Charity looks at the need, not at the cause.

Make the world better.

He that has no charity deserves no mercy.

Give what you have. To someone else it may be better than you dare to think.

Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who have need of help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

You can never expect too much of yourself in the matter of giving yourself to others.

Isn't it better to have men be ungrateful, than to miss a chance to do good?

Better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than fail in assisting the unfortunate.

Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give, I give myself.

Simply give others a bit of yourself; a thoughtful act, a helpful idea, a word of appreciation, a lift over a rough spot, a sense of understanding, a timely suggestion. You take something out of your mind, garnished in kindness out of your heart, and put it into the other fellow's mind and heart.

Blessed influence of one truly loving soul on another!

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.

Do not inflict your will. Just give love. The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be used.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.

Cruelty is the only sin.

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

Where there is no capacity to affirm another as a person in his own right, there is no love. There is only masked fear.

In real love you want the other person's good.

It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.