Quotes about Compassion

You must always check things out by going to the person in question and asking for his or her help: "Dear one, I am suffering so much, help me please.

I have been offered the noble opportunity to join my voice with that of the Crucified as He cries out, 'Father, forgive them.

Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

The measure of society is how it treats the weakest members.

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

Shall we refuse to the unhappy fugitives from distress that hospitality which the savages of the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in this land? Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe?

If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God.

Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.