Quotes about Compassion
It is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.
— Corrie Ten Boom
Hate, hatred for yourself, for other people, will confine you, but love can set you free.
— Denzel Washington
Nothing is too much trouble for Love.
— Desmond Tutu
We're under obligation to love - that's the commandment.
— Dorothy Day
There's enough hate in the world. I command you to love. And you have to make an effort.
— Dorothy Day
The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes an answer in a given situation as no mere rule can do.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.
— Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
— Joseph Addison
Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
— Joseph Addison
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.
— Joseph Addison