Quotes about Compassion
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
— CS Lewis
Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
— CS Lewis
Animals have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance. There is something so very dreadful in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.
— John Henry Newman
Depression is like a woman in black. If she turns up, don't shoo her away. Invite her in, offer her a seat, treat her like a guest and listen to what she wants to say.
— Carl Jung
The key, of course, is loving the churchless for who they are rather than for what they can offer our church.
— George Barna
If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
— George Bernard Shaw
The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty.
— George Bernard Shaw
There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.
— George Eliot
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
— George Eliot
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
— George Eliot
These fellow mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are.
— George Eliot
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
— George Eliot