Quotes about Compassion
There are things that must evoke our anger to show we care. It is what we do with that anger. If we direct that energy we can use it positively or destructively.
— Desmond Tutu
Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.
— J. Sidlow Baxter
The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian.
— Ellen White
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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