Quotes about Compassion
Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul?
— Marcus Aurelius
There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.
— Dorothy Day
We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need.
— Jim Rohn
Whatever attitudes we habitually use toward ourselves, we will use on others, and whatever attitudes we habitually use toward others, we will use on ourselves.
— Henepola Gunaratana
We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
— John Henry Newman
If you're a Christian you can't have an "I'm better than" attitude toward anyone because everybody is somebody for whom Jesus died.
— Andy Stanley
Be brave enough to do the loving thing.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.
— St. Augustine
Give people not only your care, but also your heart.
— Mother Teresa
Changing your attitude from self-centerdness to understanding requires desire and commitment to always try to see things from the other persons point of view.
— John Maxwell
There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.
— William Law
The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.
— William Law