Quotes about Compassion
Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I pray for people I love when they are sick. I pray that way.
— Frederick Buechner
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
we shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will. And we shall continue to love you.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
High justice would in no way be debased if ardent love should cancel instantly the debts these penitents must satisfy.
— Dante Alighieri
[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems....
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
— Mother Teresa
If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive." -Mother Teresa
— Mother Teresa
It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
— Mother Teresa
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.
— Mother Teresa
As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.
— Eric Wilson