Quotes About Compassion

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

The purpose of life is to listen - to yourself, to your neighbor, to your world and to God and, when the time comes, to respond in as helpful a way as you can find ... from within and without.

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Let not your rage or malice destroy a life.

No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.

Being pro-life doesn't save babies, acting pro-life does.

The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

They taught me that all life forms are important to each other in our common quest for happiness and survival. That there is more to life than just yourself, your own family, or your own kind.

We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.

This is our world and we need the same things to survive. If I'm making my life better and the circumstances of your life worse, that's terrible because in the end it will affect me, too.

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved.

We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people?

Throughout my life, I've seen the difference that volunteering efforts can make in people's lives. I know the personal value of service as a local volunteer.

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.

There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.

I'm going to make my life everyday about being a blessing in people's lives. If I'm a blessing to people's lives, then there will be nothing to worry about again.

Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least once

There are two victims in every abortion: a dead baby and a dead conscience.

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

I want to save my people. That is the purpose of my life