Quotes about Compassion

If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.

The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness.

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

I am urging Americans to be more careful about the kinds of media we support with our consumer spending. We've got to invest less in the media that glorifies violence and more in entertainment that lifts up the values of love, compassion, and the best in human nature.

When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.

Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

It's so easy to see people as less than they are, as less than people.