Quotes about Compassion
When one heart opens to another heart, it usually results in love.
— Robin Jones Gunn
Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.
— St. Augustine
Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, be silent for love; or if you cry out, cry out for love. If you chastise, chastise for love; if you spare, spare for love.
— St. Augustine
Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.
— St. Augustine
I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
— St. Augustine
When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.
— Shane Claiborne
It is not so essential to think much as to love much.
— Teresa of Avila
Love needs to be proved by action.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
He [Jesus] has no need of our works but only of our love.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.
— Thomas Jefferson
Though we may not necessarily forfeit our lives in service to our God, we can certainly demonstrate our love for Him by how well we serve Him.
— Thomas Monson
Love is counting someone else's needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.
— Timothy Keller