Quotes About Compassion

God's love for the biggest sinner is greater than the love of the holiest man for God

If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.

I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.

How in this world can we put a man on the moon, and still have a need for a place like St. Judes?

If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.

A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.

O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never forget, that compassion makes the world noble and beautiful.

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

Rescuing dogs is looked upon as a noble, trendy pursuit. But wouldn't rescuing a man from a homeless shelter be, in fact, more humane?

I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects anything that will not give people room for dissent.

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

If we only save the finger of one man, that's enough.

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

Only God truly forgives, man sometimes forgives, nature never forgives.

No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.

It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.