Quotes About Compassion

If he shall not lose his reward, who gives a cup of cold water to his thirst neighbor, what will not be the reward for those who, by putting good books into the hands of those neighbors, open to them the fountains of eternal life?" ~ Thomas À Kempis

He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Charity is love; not all love is charity.

See to whom Jesus is drawing near, three kinds of people: to those who make peace with him, to those who are devoted to God, and to those who are kind to their neighbors.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need

Man should not consider his material possessions as his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need

to make peace either in oneself or among others, shows a man to be a follower of God,

justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice is dissolution.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

The person who truly understands love could love anyone.

Religion, then, is not limited to our relation to God, but embraces, our neighbour as well.

but we must show them that shedding blood should have nothing to do with being a man." This of course was said by someone who was not of the male sex. If she had created men they would have been nicer than the ones turned out by God.

Concentration, lovingkindness, and peace. That is all." Imagine being a person

God is a just as He is merciful.

Preach the gospel to yourself, because as you consider who you are in light of God's perfect goodness, holiness and peace, you must soften toward others.

Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.

The most urgent and demanding question for Christian believers is not whether "a supreme being of some kind" exists, but rather whether this incomparably good and powerful and compassionate source and end of all things truly is as revealed in Scripture

The incarnation is God's own act of identification with the broken, the poor, with sinful humanity.

Jesus was no ivory-tower philosopher but a down-to-earth man who understood that much of the good of human life is to be found in taste, touch, smell, and the small attentions of one human being for another.