Quotes About Compassion

The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.

History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.

The tears of God are the meaning of history

At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing.

Like I'm always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can't do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds.

It is better to give your path to a dog than to be bitten by him, contesting for the right.

pity them. Matthew 19:24.

We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.

We're all just walking each other home.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes.

The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.

If someone does not have a missions heart at home, nothing magical happens when they buckle the seat belt on the airplane.

We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.

Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.

How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world with all of its failings.

If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free.