Quotes About Compassion

Mercy is the best attribute of humanity. The is nothing wrong with it. - Dr. Danie Estevez

He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never bebeloved by men.

And all must love the human form,In heathen, turk, or jew;Where Mercy, Love, & Pity dwellThere God is dwelling too.

And throughout all eternityI forgive you, you forgive me.

He who shall hurt the little wrenShall never be belov'd by men.

Pity would be no more,If we did not make somebody poor;And Mercy no more could be,If all were as happy as we.

Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's dispite.

Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.

Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to.

Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.

Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.

When this calamity fell among the passengers who were to be left here to settle, they were hurried ashore and made to drink water, so that the sailors might have the more beer and when one sufferer in his sickness desired but a small can of beer, it was answered that if he were their own father he should have none. Then the disease began to seize the sailors also, so that almost half of the crew died

in a word, [they] did all the homely and necessary offices for them which dainty and queasy stomachs cannot endure to hear named; and all this willingly and cheerfully, without any grudging in the least, showing herein their true love unto their friends and brethren. A rare example and worthy to be remembered.

As for the rest of the emotions grieving people feel, treat them seriously, but don't consider them as something you personally caused. Don't get defensive or argumentative.

Caress me, be kind. We have no history.

Send love to your fears

reason, say the elders, was so that you and future generations would not have to carry the pain.

And many a poor man that has roved,Loved and thought himself beloved,From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

To long a sacrifice can make a stone of a heart

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams