Quotes about Compassion
The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.
— Dorothy Day
No matter how tired you are, no matter how physically exhausting this work may be, it's beautiful to bring a smile into someone's life, to care for someone in need. What greater joy can there be?
— Mother Teresa
If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.
— Mother Teresa
It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.
— Clement of Alexandria
One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just.
— Dag Hammarskjold
Good works are links that form a chain of love" Mother Theresa
— Mother Teresa
God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.
— Mother Teresa
It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.
— Mother Teresa
You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.
— Mother Teresa
I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.
— Dolly Parton