Quotes About Compassion

Ye are brothers! ye are men!And we conquer but to save.

the soul of conversation is sympathy

Never love unless you can Bear with all the faults of man: Men will sometimes jealous be, Though but little cause they see.

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

O poor mortals, how ye make this Earth bitter for each other; this fearful and wonderful Life fearful and horrible; and Satan has his place in all hearts!

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

The Buddhas speak the wondrous sound throughout the world; the Teachings spoken over countless ages can all be expounded in a single word.

The Buddha is like space, with no inherent nature; appearing in the world to benefit the living, his features and refinements are like reflections.

III. 23. ?Your Lord has decreed that you should worship only God, and be good to your parents. Whether one or both of them reaches old age with you, never speak to them harshly,

and do not rebuff them, but speak to them in kindly terms. 24. ?And lower the wing of humility to them out of compassion, and say,

T]hose who are in a position of strength have a responsibility to protect the weak.

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.

a poor friendless child, apparently ten years old; but she seemed hunger bitten; and sufferings of that sort often make children look older than they are.

For a philosopher should not see in the eyes of the poor limitary creature calling himself a man of the world, and filled with the narrow and self-regarding prejudices of birth and education, but should look upon himself as a Catholic creature, and as standing in an equal relation to high and low - to educated and uneducated, to the guilty and the innocent.

Though Jesus was in torture on the cross, He thought of praying for His persecutors, of caring for His mother, of securing the good thief's salvation.

we then must ask: Who are the brothers and sisters? Are they the people in this block or rural area? Or are they everyone in this city . . . or this state . . . or this nation? Or in our global village, would our neighbors include the third and fourth worlds as well as the first and second? If one answers yes to this last question, how could he possibly get norms for poverty when there are such vast differences among the four worlds?

I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.

I'm interested in stories that help me, people navigate in this broken world.

My mom had a sense that... there are always these barriers up for certain groups of people. That's always been core to how I understand the world and navigate it.

I could actually care less about the poor. We have some living near us, and pee-yew. They are always coming and going to their three or four jobs at all hours of the day and night. Annoying!

I have a list in my mind and in my heart of actors who have been extraordinarily kind, and Hugh Laurie is near the top.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

Everybody feels they have been trespassed upon, and nearly everybody has trespassed on somebody else, maybe not intentionally.