Quotes about Compassion For Others
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
— Desmond Tutu
No one may forsake their neighbors when they are in trouble. Everybody is under obligation to help and support their neighbors as they would themselves like to be helped.
— Martin Luther
To love your neighbors is to see the face of God. - Les Miserables
— Victor Hugo
It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others.
— James Smith
Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger.
— St. John Chrysostom
If you judge people you have no time to love them.
— Mother Teresa
Too many of us are too comfortable in our "Jesus lifeboat." Instead of the church preparing its members to reach out to other people who are still in the water and pulling them into the boat, we have settled in for the ride to heaven and are busy coming up with ways to make the trip more comfortable. We go to church each week and worship God because we are saved and safe, forgetting that the lifeboat is not yet full.
— Tony Evans
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
— Mother Teresa
We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefore, who are we to condemn anybody?
— Mother Teresa
We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.
— Thomas Merton
When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap all the way to the edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident. I am the LORD your God.’”
— Leviticus 23:22
it has been and always will be my desire not to attack even those whom public repute disgraces. I am not delighted at the faults of any man, since I am very conscious myself of the great beam in my own eye, nor can I be the first to cast a stone at the adulteress.
— Martin Luther