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Quotes About Compassion

I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Let's save all the children, save the babies, save the babies.
~ Marvin Gaye
The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace.
~ Nafisa Joseph
A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through.
~ Rod Stewart
Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.
~ Chandravadan Mehta
It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.
~ Bernhard Haring
The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.
~ Hildegard Goss-Mayr
Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.
~ Bill Gates
The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
You save your soul by saving someone else's body.
~ Arthur Hertzberg
Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.
~ George Eliot
To build peace is difficult but to live without it is torment.
~ Pope Francis
The power to be at peace - not because of anything your physical senses perceive, and sometimes in spite of what your physical senses perceive - is the power to help heal this world miraculously.
~ Marianne Williamson
Pray May all reach the shore of peace, spreading the sweet holy fragrance of Love and vibrations of unity and harmony.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.
~ Maya Angelou
Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.
~ Dalai Lama
There can be no lasting peace, no security, nor can we as human beings begin to touch our full potential, as long as hunger overwhelms the human spirit around this planet.
~ Dennis Weaver
How many innocent people and children suffer in the world! Lord, grant us your peace!
~ Pope Francis
A Christian brings peace to others. Not only peace, but also love, kindness, faithfulness and joy.
~ Pope Francis
Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.
~ Richard Dawkins
The most faithful disciples of Christ have been builders of peace, to the point of forgiving their enemies, sometimes even to the point of giving their lives for them.
~ Pope John Paul II