Quotes about Compassion
If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.
— Bruce Lee
No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
— Booker T. Washington
Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.
— Charles Dickens
The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.
— Henry David Thoreau
Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.
— Gordon Hinckley
When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jesus Christ reveals, not an embarrassed God, not a confused God, not a God who stands apart from the problems, but One who stands in the thick of the whole thing with man.
— Oswald Chambers
Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone
— Oscar Wilde
The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.
— John Stott
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
— Oscar Wilde