Quotes about Compassion
For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.
— Henri Nouwen
I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.
— Dorothy Day
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
— Mother Teresa
Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
— Marianne Williamson
The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world.
— Mother Teresa
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
— Audrey Hepburn
If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.
— Oprah Winfrey
When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave the house and to go away to those who are not able to come to Him.
— Origen
We should stand up for those who can't protect themselves. Support kids and families who can't support themselves.
— Sangram Singh
I don't like to see people get kicked around. You have to stand up for them.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next.
— Albert Bandura