Quotes About Compassion

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Dieu me pardonnera c'est son metier. (God will pardon me, that's his job.)

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.

Želimo li promijeniti ljude, moramo ih ljubiti. Naš utjecaj seže samo donde dokle seže naša ljubav.

You have to deal with people the way they are, not the way you'd like them to be.

You need something to set against it. When you've seen that much badness you need something to set against it—some dazzling glorious act of goodness—not to redeem your faith in humanity, whatever that might mean, but just to make you stop feeling sick.

The world would be quite a pretty place if the only people tormented by atrocities were those who'd committed them.

Our houses are palaces to those who have none.

No one makes a better enemy than a man who has had to beg for your help.

I've known for a long time about dolphins getting caught in nets and drowning there. But knowing is not the same as seeing it with your own eyes. I feel heavy, sad and responsible.

A world without love is a deadly place.

I think there's more to God than the big beardy feller in the sky. I know that God is on earth, in people, in good deeds. God is in the big things, and the small things. He's under the fingernails of our daughters, and he's in all the kindnesses we show people. I know that what people call 'God's work' can be called 'lightening the burden' for another human being. My kind of God might be a bit different from yours, maybe that's all.

It was the sad privilege of blood relations to love him despite all.

It came to me that to turn the other cheek, as he had done, was not simply to apply an ancient Christian precept but also to engage in a highly sophisticated psychological maneuver. 216

even women who had run the colonias infantiles for refugee children.

There is only one terminal dignity -- love.

The story of a love is not important. What is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.

The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.