Quotes About Compassion

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other....

Sometimes it's easier to care for others than it is to care for yourself.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

Vi løskjøper oss fra synet av elendighet ved hjelp av kobberskillinger, men det er fordyrt fortiggerenogfor billig for oss

I wonder why it is we are not all kinder than we are! How much the world needs it. How easily it is done. How instantaneously it acts. How infallibly it is remembered

the test of a man then is not, "How have I believed?" but "How have I loved?

The greatest thing," says some one, "a man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be kind to some of His other children.

Love, understood by all, will be pouring forth its unconscious eloquence.

It is a wonderful thing that here and there in this hard, uncharitable world there should still be left a few rare souls who think no evil. This is the great unworldliness. Love "thinketh no evil," imputes no motive, sees the bright side, puts the best construction on every action. What a delightful state of mind to live in! What a stimulus and benediction even to meet with it for a day!

now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

If you love, you will unconsciously fulfill the whole law.

Do you know the meaning of the word 'gentleman'? It means someone who does things gently. That is the whole art and mystery of Love.

Stephen Grellet wrote: 'I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

There is a difference between trying to please and giving pleasure. Give pleasure. Lose no chance of giving pleasure; for that is the ceaseless and anonymous triumph of a truly loving spirit. "I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with an excellency of heart.

Want oú compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our eyes, it is to be feared, are seldom turned up to those who are manifestly greater, better, wiser, or happier than ourselves, without some degree of malignity, we commonly look downward on the mean and miserable with sufficient benevolence and pity.

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

An amiable weakness.

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.