Quotes About Compassion

Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody is under the frightful necessity of becoming first a thief and then a corpse.' Thomas More (1474–1535), student at Lincoln's Inn from 1496–1500

It placed its finger roughly on sore places.

It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.

but remember that I shall love your sorrow...

If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.

I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.

even found time to organize relief for war orphans.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.

I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.

Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice… there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowering others––especially the least of these, the precious and priceless wretched of the earth!

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

You'd be surprised how difficult it is to ask alms of a stranger when you've never done it before, what a psychological barrier separates the honest man from the panhandler. ("Dusk To Dawn")

Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.

Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away, the love seemed as whole as before. She sat in her chair at the window and loved us. She loved the people she saw in the street-- and beyond: her love took in the city, the land of Holland, the world. And so I learned that love is larger than the walls which shut it in.

And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.

All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there.

Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.

When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

Corrie, if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love! We must find the way, you and I, no matter how long it takes.

Your love in me is stronger than the hatred.

It is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.