Quotes About Compassion

Be unselfish in your love. Remember, you are not the cat.

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people: it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

The poor will always be with you.

This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous.

O God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!

The poor always ye have with you.

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord.

Blessed is he that considereth the poor.

To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress.

He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

He will regard the prayer of the destitute.

He who prays for his neighbors will be heard for himself.

We should say to God as we mingle with our dear ones each day, "God, give them each Thy blessing. They need it, because they live with me, and I am very selfish and unwilling to sacrifice very much for them, although I do love them."

Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.

God bless all those that I love; God bless all those that love me; God bless all those that love those that I love and all those that love those that love me.

Thou who has given so much to me, give one thing more: a grateful heart.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.

If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burden.

But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of him.

The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveller with his patient.

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else's.