Quotes about Compassion
Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
To love our neighbor in charity is to love God in man.
— Francis de Sales
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.
— Marcus Aurelius
Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.
— Albert Einstein
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
— Albert Schweitzer
I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.
— Leo Buscaglia
Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.
— Leonard Ravenhill
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him.
— Thomas Merton
If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.
— Dante Alighieri