Quotes about Compassion
Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge of self gives humility
— Mother Teresa
There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love
— Mother Teresa
In response to the question, 'How can we help to promote world peace?' Mother Theresa replied, 'Go home and love your children.
— Mother Teresa
I do make conversion, if conversion means really turning people to God - to have a clean heart and to love God. That's the real conversion.
— Mother Teresa
The Cross will be for us as it was for Christ: proof of the greatest love.
— Mother Teresa
My secret is a very simple one: I pray. To pray to Christ is to love him.
— Mother Teresa
Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people
— Norman Vincent Peale
In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience.
— Paulo Coelho
Each of us has a "soft spot": the place in our experience where we feel vulnerable and tender. This soft spot is inherent in appreciation and love, and it is equally inherent in pain.
— Pema Chodron
Seeing with the eyes of Christ, I can give to others much more than their outward necessities; I can give them the look of love which they crave.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Without mercy, we have little chance nowadays of becoming part of a world of 'wounded' persons in need of understanding, forgiveness, love.
— Pope Francis
War is the suicide of humanity because it kills the heart and kills love.
— Pope Francis