Quotes about Compassion
During times of disaster sorrow brings people together in a spirit of friendship, and influences man to recognize the blessings of becoming his brother's keeper.
— Napoleon Hill
You will find happiness only by helping others to find it.
— Napoleon Hill
Officially, the New Testament church at an early stage took seriously their responsibility for widows who lacked family or other resources. The office of deacon was instituted initially to address this pressing need.
— Carolyn Custis James
Jesus' final act of public ministry was to address the needs of a widow, his own mother, whose eldest son was dying before her very eyes.
— Carolyn Custis James
Did people always have to wait for pestilence or war or tragedy to be shocked into forgetting about themselves?
— Catherine Marshall
There's fire in you, Julie. I can see you out there in the street, carrying a banner for all the underprivileged people of the world.
— Catherine Marshall
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.
— George Eliot
As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.
— Billy Graham
Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.
— Dorothy Day
It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.
— Joel Osteen
When there is enough food to feed everyone, why are 870 million people going hungry? We must learn to share what we have; no one race or nation has a greater right to life than another.
— David Harewood
We do not need answers or formulas to minister in crisis.
— John Ortberg