Quotes about Compassion

Christmas is, for those who wish to follow the way of Jesus, an invitation to accept into our comfortable and safe lives those who come to us from far away, who seem ragged, marginal, in transition.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and can be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.

Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission; to be of service to them whenever they request it.

She] personally tended the unhappy and impoverished victims of hunger and disease. I have often seen her washing wounds which others — even men — could hardly bear to look at ... She founded a hospital and gathered there the sufferers from the streets, and gave them all the attention of a nurse... How often she carried home, on her shoulders, the dirty and poor who were plagued with epilepsy! How she washed the pus from sores which others could not even behold.

Love the sinner and hate the sin.

It is as if he should feel that there is an enemy who could be more destructive to himself than that hatred which excites him against his fellow man; or that he could destroy him whom he hates more completely than he destroys his own soul by this same hatred.

So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.

Our God have mercy upon us, that we may use the law lawfully, the end of the commandment, pure charity.

The meek are those who yield to acts of wickedness, and do not resist evil, but overcome evil with good.

Good God! what takes place in man, that he should more rejoice at the salvation of a soul despaired of, and freed from greater peril, than if there had always been hope of him, or the danger had been less?

And I, miserable, believed that more mercy was to be shown to the fruits of the earth than men, for whom they were created.