Quotes about Compassion

Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb.

Only the brave know how to forgive…. A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

The men, who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away--the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us--is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.

Never… be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel.

"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."

As good as gold [Tiny Tim].

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that - as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.