Quotes about Compassion
If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.
— Mark Twain
Returning hate, adding deeper darkness to a night that is already void of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.
— Max Lucado
Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.
— Mother Teresa
How much love did you put into what you did?
— Mother Teresa
Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?
— Muhammad Ali
Love creates bridges where it would seem they were impossible.
— Paulo Coelho
... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.
— Philip Yancey
Being a Christian means having love. That is unbelievably difficult and, at the same time, incredibly simple.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
— Maya Angelou
Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
— Bob Goff