Quotes about Compassion

Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. Still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues.

Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues.

God regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which the work is done.

Real living is living for others.

Love and respect. — Without respect, love cannot go long.

Kindness and remembrance. — A person cannot forget someone who is good to them.

In an instant's compass, great hearts sometimes condense to one deep pang, the sum total of those shallow pains kindly diffused through feebler men's whole lives.

And what is the will of God?—to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me—that is the will of God.

What's all this fuss I have been making about, thought I to myself—the man's a human being just as I am: he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores; let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God's right to come; though they bring all Ireland and her miseries with them. For the whole world is the patrimony of the whole world; there is no telling who does not own a stone in the Great Wall of China.

Love is an energy. You can feed it to people, and they, in turn, feed it to others, and eventually it comes back to nurture you.

Only God possesses the love and wisdom necessary to deal with human pride in a consistently constructive manner.