Quotes about Compassion
The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our own; love gives us to our neighbor as his own.
— Martin Luther
There is so much love in us all, but often we are too shy to express our love, and keep it bottled up inside us. We must learn to love, to love until it hurts, and we will know how to accept love.
— Mother Teresa
Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ministry is being one of theses sent out ones, a labourer of love.
— Heidi Baker
And now run the race which is set before thee, in the royal way of universal love.
— John Wesley
It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.
— Thomas Merton
The good you have done, the kind words you have spoken, the love you have shown to others, can never be fully measured.
— Thomas Monson
The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love.
— Zig Ziglar
When you are in the midst of suffering you are looking for someone to be Jesus to you. You are looking for someone to love you and help take care of you, and reach out to you.
— Lee Strobel
One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love.
— Leo Buscaglia
The only way love punishes in by suffering.
— Mahatma Gandhi