Quotes about Compassion

1. To account nothing of one's self, and to think always kindly and highly of others, this is great and perfect wisdom. Even shouldest thou see thy neighbour sin openly or grievously, yet thou oughtest not to reckon thyself better than he, for thou knowest not how long thou shalt keep thine integrity. All of us are weak and frail; hold thou no man more frail than thyself.

All of us are weak and frail; hold thou no man more frail than thyself.

If he shall not lose his reward, who gives a cup of cold water to his thirst neighbor, what will not be the reward for those who, by putting good books into the hands of those neighbors, open to them the fountains of eternal life?"

He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.

Charity is love; not all love is charity.

See to whom Jesus is drawing near, three kinds of people: to those who make peace with him, to those who are devoted to God, and to those who are kind to their neighbors.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

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

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

to make peace either in oneself or among others, shows a man to be a follower of God,

justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice is dissolution.