Quotes About Compassion

Strive to become the true human being: one who knows love, one who knows pain. Be full, be humble, be utterly silent, be the bowl of wine passed from hand to hand. (Al-Ansari)

Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.

Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.

Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.

That's what is wrong. Jesus commands us to carry on his work, no matter at what cost in privation, pain, and hazard of life; and all we've accomplished is a free boarding-house and loafing-place for anybody who will say, "I believe.

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Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful; which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows.

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man; insomuch, that if it issue not towards men, it will take unto other living creatures; as it is seen in the Turks, cruel people, who, nevertheless, are kind to beasts, and give alms to dogs and birds.

Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.

A man can no more justly make use of another's necessity to force him to become his vassal by withholding that relief God requires him to afford to the wants of his brother, than he that has more strength can seize upon a weaker, master him to his obedience, and with a dagger at his throat, offer him death or slavery.

If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love.

I appeal to any white man to say if he ever entered Logan's cabin hungry and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked and he clothed him not?

Don't tell your friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.

Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

It is more blessed to give than to receive." (Acts 30:35)

A pigs and pain, until you really get to know 'em. Then he's a paid with the soul.

Be true to yourself, be kind to others, be honest, don't say anything if you have nothing nice to say

She was thinking about the other part of Carollynn's story. The part about giving something back. Mom has always taught us that , she thought. What Carollynn is saying is the same thing. You get what you give in life. And sometimes you have to give it back, too.

You can learn to project more power without becoming meaner. In fact, that's your problem. You think mean and powerful are the same thing.

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.

I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.