Quotes about Compassion
Calisto, a companion of Ignatius, and who on recovering from a severe illness had heard of the imprisonment of Ignatius, hastened from Segnovia, where he was staying, and came to Alcala, that he, too, might be cast into prison.
— Ignatius of Loyola
When one loves, one does not calculate.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
And it is the Lord, it is Jesus, Who is my judge. Therefore I will try always to think leniently of others, that He may judge me leniently, or rather not at all, since He says: "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbours' defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
You know well enough that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
I have at last found my vocation; it is love!
— St. Therese of Lisieux
is more profitable to leave everyone to his way of thinking than to give way to contentious discourses.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Can a victim of love find anything her Spouse sends terrible?
— St. Therese of Lisieux