Quotes About Compassion

À ceux qui ignorent, enseignez-leur [...] Le coupable n'est pas celui qui y fait le péché, mais celui qui y a fait l'ombre.

We may be indifferent to the death penalty and not declare ourselves either way so long as we have not seen a guillotine with our own eyes. But when we do, the shock is violent, and we are compelled to choose sides, for or against... Death belongs to God alone.

He now clearly perceived the truth which was henceforth to be the centre of his life, namely, that while she was there, while he had her near him, he would need nothing except for her sake and fear nothing except on her account. He was not even conscious of feeling extremely cold, having taken off his coat to cover her.

This is not my house; it is the house of Jesus Christ. This door does not demand of him who enters whether he has a name, but whether he has a grief. You suffer, you are hungry and thirsty; you are welcome. And do not thank me; do not say that I receive you in my house. No one is at home here, except the man who needs a refuge. I say to you, who are passing by, that you are much more at home here than I am myself.

Misery offers; society accepts

Svarbiausia, neišsigimk ? žmog?.

The universe appeared to him like an immense malady; everywhere he felt fever, everywhere he heard the sound of suffering, and, without seeking to solve the enigma, he strove to dress the wound.

Misfortunes shared creates happiness.

in our civilization there are fearful hours - such are those when the criminal law pronounces shipwreck upon a man. What a mournful moment is that in which society withdraws itself and gives up a thinking being forever.

Be a religion to each other. Each man has his own fashion of adoring God. Saperlotte! the best way to adore God is to love one's wife. I love thee! that's my catechism. He who loves is orthodox.

The supreme happiness of life is that we are loved; loved for ourselves - say rather, loved in spite of ourselves

The just man frowns, but never sneers. We understand anger, not malice.

God raises from the dead he who man slays, he whom his brothers have rejected, finds his father once more. Pray, believe, enter into life the father is there.

At the hour of civilization through which we are now passing, and which is still so sombre, the miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

Tal es la explicación de la guerra, que es algo que lleva a cabo la humanidad contra la humanidad pese a la humanidad.

True, I tore the drapery from the altar; but it was to dress the wounds of the country.

He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when he no longer had any, he visited the rich.

Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of you. The very man who is embarrassed by his name is the one who needs shelter.

Sin as little as possible-that is the law of mankind. Not to sin at all is the dream of the angel. All earthly things are subject to sin. Sin is like gravity.

Au-dessus de l'absolu révolutionnaire, il y a l'absolu humain.

He understood how to say the grandest things in the most vulgar of idioms. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts.

Love one another dearly, always. Nothing else in the world really matters but that: to love one another.

He was one of those children most deserving of pity, among all, one of those who have father and mother, and who are orphans nevertheless.

A good mayor is a useful person. How can you hold back when you have the chance to do good?