Quotes about Compassion
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.
— Henry Ward Beecher
No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.
— John Wesley
Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them
— Marcus Aurelius
Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.
— Cicero
Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
— Pope John Paul II
The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
— Albert Camus
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
— Booker T. Washington
The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.
— Roland Allen
To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.
— St. Augustine
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
— St. Jerome