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Quotes About Compassion

The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.
~ Wendell Berry
Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it.
~ Colman McCarthy
there is no path to peace, but peace itself is the path.
~ Richard Rohr
To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
~ Gordon Lightfoot
Give away your love, freely and without expectation. Give it away, and soon your life will be filled with love, and you will have set others on the path of love and peace.
~ John Robbins
My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day.
~ Walter Kohn
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
~ Alice Walker
World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.
~ Helen Keller
It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.
~ Dorothy Day
We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
~ Harry S. Truman
I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.
~ Mother Teresa
Peace and love, peace and love!
~ Ringo Starr
Concern yourselves more with the needs of others, with the needs of all humanity, and you'll have peace of mind.
~ Dalai Lama
Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult, it is the only way.
~ Dalai Lama
Dear young people, pray with me for peace in the world.
~ Pope Francis
The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.
~ Sean Lennon
Everybody needs a helping hand, take a look at your fellow man.
~ Amy Grant
As much as I think I've inspired people in the world, I'd like to be more involved bringing about world peace.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
~ Peace Pilgrim
We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.
~ Isabel Allende
If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.
~ Mark Sheppard
People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.
~ Peace Pilgrim
When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness
~ Nhat Hanh
Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy