Quotes About Compassion

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

He who is less than just is less than man.

Some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread.

Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.

I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg.

Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.

It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.

The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How then can we be brothers?

A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.

The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.

Some have more capacity. Some proceed a few steps along the way. But Christ seemed to love all men. He desired all to be saved.

I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.

All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.

If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.

The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.