Quotes About Compassion

What is superfluous to your poor estate, distribute. This is distributive charity: a virtue so sacred that crimes against it are the forerunner of inevitable doom.

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

We might imagine that Jesus had many human faults. He failed most humanly, in my reckoning, when he killed the fig tree just because it didn't bear any figs for his breakfast; that was a disgraceful, bad-tempered thing to do, and to try and make a virtue of it by saying it was a demonstration of faith only made things worse.

The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.

What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.

Love is bumping along together with the people in your life and making mistakes and trying to make them right by virtue of the fact that these are people you actually love; you care about them enough to muddle through it with them.

When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.

The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues - compassion, wonder, humility, respect for the mysterious - are far from conventionally heroic.

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

Respect all manner of men regardless of their station in life. Compassion is one of the greatest virtues.

Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.

Authenticity, living your truth, kindness - these are necessary virtues.

Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

I'm not a vegetarian. But I think people who are vegetarians, they are actually more virtuous than the rest of us. I think they should be admired.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

If an employee told you he had the flu, you'd send him home. If an employee told you he was feeling anxious, you'd probably tell him to get back to work. But the emotion is just as contagious as a flu virus.

You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.

When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill.

No matter how successful we are in fighting the threat of covid-19 at home, we will not end the suffering and fear created by the virus unless we also combat it around the world.