Quotes About Compassion

An old gospel hymn says: "Mercy there was great, and grace was free." Four biblical words seem to come together when the subject of grace is under consideration. They are grace, mercy, peace, and kindness. We act out of grace; we give mercy; we extend peace; and we treat one another kindly.

Compassionate emptiness. To me that meant a state of nonjudgmental receiving.

I say, if it's love, the Lord won't mind. There's enough hate in the world.

When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!—

Angels can fly directly into the heart of the matter.

Angels have no philosophy but love.

Oh if there is one law above the rest Written in wisdom—if there is a word That I would trace as with a pen of fire Upon the unsunn'd temper of a child— If there is any thing that keeps the mind Open to angel visits, and repels The ministry of ill—'tis human love!

Anyone can be an angel.

Sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.

I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

If there is a just God, how humanity would writhe in its attempt to justify its treatment of animals.

No humane being... will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.

To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and malice, "human" might be the greater insult.

Wag more. Bark less.

Give goodness to the day and before you know it, the day will be giving goodness to you.

Don't be mean when you've had a bad day. Be nice, and your day will get better.

Reach up (to accept blessings). Bend down (to respect humbly). Reach out (to give freely).

And she was always cold toward bats, too, and could not bear them; and yet I think a bat is as friendly a bird as there is.

Pigeons are people too.

Somewhere at a summer conference, I dropped several books casually on the ground and kicked them out of the way. A German student picked up the books, dusted them off gently. He said how he had worked for years to buy a few books. A book was his blood, and he bled when he saw it mishandled.

To err is human To purr feline.

Keep your Christmas-heart open all the year round.

Don't laugh at the coffee. Some day you, too, may be old and weak.