Quotes about Compassion
Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Man should not consider his material possessions as his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need
— St. Thomas Aquinas
to make peace either in oneself or among others, shows a man to be a follower of God,
— St. Thomas Aquinas
justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice is dissolution.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The person who truly understands love could love anyone.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
No man ought to despise or in any way injure another man without urgent cause: and, consequently, unless we have evident indications of a person's wickedness, we ought to deem him good, by interpreting for the best whatever is doubtful about him.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Shepherds of the flock should . . . seek the good of their flock, and every ruler the good of the people subject to him.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Religion, then, is not limited to our relation to God, but embraces, our neighbour as well.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
I cannot bring Christ to my neighbor and to the world if I have not first given him to my family.
— Mother Angelica
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
— Robert Louis Stevenson