Quotes about Compassion
What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.
— St. Basil
Love draws forth love.
— Teresa of Avila
Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!
— Teresa of Avila
We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us incapable of loving others.
— Thomas Merton
Forgive yourself and welcome love back into your life.
— Wayne Dyer
It is no coincidence that Jesus talks endlessly about love. Free love. Unconditional love.
— Donald Miller
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love.
— Pope Benedict XVI
God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!
— St. Augustine
With each expression of love, the entire world is touched.
— Ted Andrews