Quotes About Compassion

We both love him. I'm just saying, you can love your child and still see his flaws. You have to see his flaws, otherwise how can you help him?

Every criminal is still a man, a complex of good and bad, fully deserving of our empathy and mercy.

she was one of those selective, ferociously loyal people who, once they have taken you in, will stand by you through the most desperate times. Such people have few acquaintances and many friends. They withhold their affection because it costs them so much to give it so completely, and because they never—ever—revoke it. If you are lucky, you may meet one or two of them in your life.

Parents of murdered children have it worst, and to me the fathers have it even worse than the mothers because they are taught to be stoic, to "act like a man.

You can't do it alone, that's the thing. You have to remember there are other people out there who have gone through it, who know what you're going through.

The girl was about to cry, which reminded me of the grown woman I had just left on the sidewalk also near tears. Jesus, there was no escaping them.

you can love your child and still see his flaws. You have to see his flaws, otherwise how can you help him?

Jesus asks the Samaritan woman at the well, 'Rax me a drap watter, will ye?' and she replies, 'What! A Jew lik ye seekin a drink o a Samâritan like mysel?' (John 4: 7–9)

Never, therefore, allow yourselves to despise those who do not follow your rules of life: but force your hearts to love them, and pray to God for them; and let humility be always whispering it into your ears, that you yourselves would fall from those rules to-morrow, if God should leave you to your own strength and wisdom.

A new commandment," saith He, "I give unto you, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye love one another." [John xiii. 34, 35]

Be daily, therefore, on your knees, in a solemn deliberate performance of this devotion, praying for others in such forms, with such length, importunity, and earnestness, as you use for yourself; and you will find all little, ill-natured passions die away, your heart grow great and generous, delighting in the common happiness of others, as you used only to delight in your own.

and have not Charity (that is, have not the Spirit of Christ) it profiteth me nothing.

Our country is the world—our countrymen are all mankind.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury. (Declaration of Sentiments, Boston Peace Conference (28 September 1838))

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

William Loren Katz

Hell is paved with good Samaritans.

The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.

I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

William Makepeace Thackeray

It is best to love wisely, no doubt but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.