Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility, nor is largeness and justness of view faith. Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound, gives no command over the passions, no influential motives, no vivifying principles. Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.

Let's choose each day and every day to keep an attitude of faith and joy and belief and compassion.

Humility - the discipline of putting others ahead of self, the choice to value others above self - is, at its core, a matter of faith.

The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.

Kindness is a language the blind can see and the deaf can hear.

Kindness is a Language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith; Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise; but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.