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Quotes About Compassion

to Jesus's Jewish audience as well as to Luke's readers, the idea of a "good Samaritan" would make no more sense than the idea of a "good rapist" or a "good murderer.
~ Amy-Jill Levine
Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you.
~ Amy-Jill Levine
Luke gently criticizes people who pray, and pray, but who fail to open the gate, or to see the need at their doorstep.
~ Amy-Jill Levine
My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.
~ An Wang
If you wish to heal your sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of others. They are looking to you for guidance, help, courage, strength, understanding, and for assurance. Most of all, they are looking to you for love. He smiled.
~ Ana Castillo
Amigo, yo bien sé lo que hacen los hombres con los vencidos". Y no era más que una frase. Nada más. ¿Qué sé yo de lo que hacen los hombres con los vencidos…? ¿Quiénes son, al fin y al cabo, los vencidos? ¿Me creí acaso, entonces, vencido? No: no lo pensé suiquiera. Yo mantenía mi esperanza.
~ Ana María Matute
La gente buena tiene un don para irradiar cariño, para producir campos de fuerza donde poder cobijar a los demás, y en parte gracias a esas personas y a la constancia de sus gestos amables, la humanidad todavía no se ha extinguido.
~ Ana Merino
Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color.
~ Ana Monnar
At times anger will trigger harsh words. After a cooling period wisdom sets in; finally, the ability to speak from the heart with love and compassion.
~ Ana Monnar
Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.
~ Ana Monnar
With the right treatment, love, and care the world is a better place.
~ Ana Monnar
All human beings are my neighbors. We share the same planet. Ana Monnar
~ Ana Monnar
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
~ Anatol Rapoport
Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelingsóadmiration or pity.
~ Anatole France
Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.
~ Anatole France
Caress your phrase tenderly: it will end by smiling at you.
~ Anatole France
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
~ Anatole France
It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
~ Anatole France
If you have not loved an animal, your soul remains unawakened.
~ Anatole France
We love truly only those we love even in their weakness and their poverty. To forbear, to forgive, to console, that alone is the science of love.
~ Anatole France
MeilÄ—s kaltÄ—s bus atleistos, nes tyroj meilÄ—j nÄ—ra nieko pikta. Bet jausmingoj meilÄ—j yra tiek pat neapykantos, egoizmo ir apmaudo, kiek ir meilÄ—s.
~ Anatole France
Até termos amado um animal, parte da nossa alma permanece adormecida.
~ Anatole France
A caridade humana é o concurso de todos na produção e na partilha dos frutos. Ela é justiça, é amor, e os pobres a exercem melhor que os ricos.
~ Anatole France
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
~ Anatole France