Quotes About Compassion

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.

A couple you do not recognize - visitors, strangers - come to the door. How are you to view these people and what is your responsibility towards them? ... To assume that these visitors are really like you, that there are no real difference between you and them, and that the highest goal possible is that you and the other members of your congregation will become intimate friends with them and invite them into the private spaces of your life.

The most thankful person is the most fully human.

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Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.

Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere,Heav'n did a recompense as largely send:He gave to mis'ry all he had, a tear,He gain'd from Heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend.

The generous spark extinct revive, Teach me to love and to forgive, Exact my own defects to scan, What others are, to feel, and to know myself a Man. - Hymn to Adversity

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

It all comes down to people in the end. All the global policies and grand schemes. They all come down to what we do to people, whether we help or harm them.

We are taught to speak with courtesy to strangers," Farouk went on. "For we do not know the evil or the good that may be in such a person's heart." The

Fortunately the Lord is patient and understanding, and does write straight with our crooked lines.

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered.

One more unfortunate,Weary of breath,Rashly importunate,Gone to her death!Take her up tenderly,Lift her with care;Fashioned so slenderly,Young, and so fair!

Alas for the rarityOf Christian charityUnder the sun!

O God! that bread should be so dear,And flesh and blood so cheap!

O men, with sisters dear!O men, with mothers and wives!It is not linen you're wearing out,But human creatures' lives!

I want to leave behind me the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one.