Quotes About Compassion

The world loves the Saint, and Christ loves the sinner.

Let those who have not walked as we have done, In the red fire of passion, those whose lives Are dull and colourless, in a word let those, If any such there be, who have not loved, Cast stones against you

It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

It is strange,' the bird said. 'It is very cold, but I feel quite warm.' 'That is because you have done a good thing,' said the prince.

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders.

When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

All those who come in contact with his [Christ's] personality, even though they may neither bow to his altar or kneel before his priest, in some way find that the ugliness of their sin is taken away and the beauty of their sorrow is revealed to them.

Through vanity he had spared her.

If this girl can give a soul to those who have lived without one, if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly, if she can strip them of their selfishness and lend them tears for sorrows that are not their own, she is worthy of all your adoration, worthy of the adoration of the world.

She is all the great heroines of the world in one.

I am covered with fine gold, said the Prince, you must take it off, leaf by leaf, and give it to my poor.

Nor do I in any way approve of the modern sympathy with invalids.  I consider it morbid.  Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. 

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man's intelligence...it is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves

Humph! tell your Aunt Agatha, Harry, not to bother me any more with her charity appeals. I am sick of them. Why, the good woman thinks that I have nothing to do but to write cheques for her silly fads." "All right, Uncle George, I'll tell her, but it won't have any effect. Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

The world is cruel, give me thy heart to take with me.

Lord Henry smiled. People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

I often wonder what would have happened to those in pain if, instead of Christ, there had been a Christian.

A ti te gusta todo el mundo, o lo que es lo mismo, no te importa nadie

A un niño con quemaduras le gusta el fuego

I can sympathize with everything except suffering. I cannot sympathize with that. It is too ugly, too horrible, too distressing.

Quien verdaderamente abriga en sí el amor, encuentra amor para consigo.