Quotes About Compassion

Our wives, German women or French women as they may have been, stood loyally by us and wisely, cool-headedly, did what they could to help us all.

Whoever is free from prejudice should be ready to face misunderstanding.

Strength is given us for service, not to convey status (see Romans 15:2). I wonder how much trouble would be averted in the world at large if everyone knew and adhered to this principle. What if we knew that our strength was to serve the weak, fearful, or timid? It would all be good!

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves;    ensure justice for those being crushed. Yes, speak up for the poor and helpless,    and see that they get justice. (Proverbs 31:8–9, NLT)

I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak. (Ezek. 34:16)

We do not walk away from others to punish them; we turn away so the embers of anger can cool and reason can again rule our hearts.

if I could love him less, then maybe I could forgive him more.

And that's love, yes? Not making all the right decisions all the time, but being there when it matters the most.

Let me be the first to say, there isn't a hell big enough for some of the assholes we have walking here on this earth.

I hate the raw edge to my voice, but I can't stop it. These cases shouldn't be personal to me. But they are. That's the thing I can't help, and Paul couldn't understand.

A perfect family, I think, is one that's learned how to forgive.

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.

There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.

A society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable: the aged, the infirm, the disabled and the unborn.

The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

Shatter the glass. In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the face of your neighbor and less about your own.

It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard

The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society.

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.