Quotes about Compassion

Do you think that I would not have let you know that, if you suffered, I was suffering too: that if you wept there were tears in my eyes also: and that if you lay in the house of bondage and were despised of men, I out of my griefs had built a house in which to dwell until your coming, a treasury in which all that man had denied to you would be laid up for your healing, one hundredfold in increase?

Who are you? he said. I am the Happy Prince. Why are you weeping then? asked the swallow; you have quite drenched me.

When he [Christ] says 'Forgive your enemies', it is not for the sake of the enemy but for one's own sake that he says so, and because Love is more beautiful than Hate.

The world loves the Saint, and Christ loves the sinner.

Let those who have not walked as we have done, In the red fire of passion, those whose lives Are dull and colourless, in a word let those, If any such there be, who have not loved, Cast stones against you

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

I am covered with fine gold, said the Prince, you must take it off, leaf by leaf, and give it to my poor.

I often wonder what would have happened to those in pain if, instead of Christ, there had been a Christian.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

How is it possible to be uninterested in other men and by virtue of what cold nonchalance can you detach yourself from the life that they supply so copiously?