Quotes About Compassion

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

We must love one another or die.

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

All love is sweet, given or returned.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

Find that guy that will pick up every piece of your shattered heart & put it back together; Replacing it with a piece of his.

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

You may give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, comtempt, and general indiference, and they call it love. Once you've felt what it means to love as you and I know it - the total passion for the total height - you are unable of anything else.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,but have not love, I gain nothing.

It's not the people who are in prison worry me. It's the people who aren't.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given; nor how much have you won, but how much have you done; not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed; how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.

There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.

To get a woman's heart, a man must first use his own.

If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like now.

A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

One should love animals. They are so tasty.