Quotes About Compassion

Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.

Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.

If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.

Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.

Compassion will no longer be seen as a spiritual luxury for a contemplative few; rather it will be viewed as a social necessity for the entire human family.

Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.

To become wholly compassionate requires us to open our eyes and hearts, to behold the pain and exploitation our culture obscures, to arouse deadened emotions, and to rise above our egos.

When we assist Him in His mission of saving souls, we too will be rescued in the process.

Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts.

To minister means to love and care for others. It means to attend to their physical and spiritual needs. Put simply, it means to do what the Savior would do if He were here.

To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks. To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do.

If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for spiritual growth.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.

There is no way to overstate the magnitude of the collective spiritual transformation that will occur when we shift from food of violent oppression to food of gentleness and compassion.

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

Whole-hearted listening is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to the other person.

If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.

By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress.

Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.

Tolerance is a sign of growth on the spiritual path

It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.