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Quotes About Compassion

How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?
~ Shane Claiborne
How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?
~ Bob Dylan
The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken hearts.
~ Hank Williams, Jr.
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
~ Alan Paton
Take care of each man as though he were your own brother. He is.
~ William O. Wooldridge
If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
~ William Penn
Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A homeless guy came up to me on the street, said he hadn't eaten in four days. I told him, "Man, I wish I had your willpower.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.
~ Pythagoras
The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence is the sum of a Christian man.
~ Charles Wesley
The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.
~ Alfred Adler
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.
~ Harvey Cushing
I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heat that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John-only somewhat bewildered.
~ Elizabeth Proctor
Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him.
~ Julian of Norwich
I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.
~ Tea Leoni
No nation is truly free until the animal, man's younger brother is free and happy.
~ Sadhu T. L. Vaswani
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
~ Hermann Hesse
A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible
~ Raoul Wallenberg
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
~ William Faulkner
The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
~ Khalil Gibran