Quotes about Compassion

The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.

When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out.

If you care enough about certain things and work for them, I think you are bound to find them in the people you are with.

In this world, no one is all knowing, and therefore, all of us need both love and charity.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Think higher, feel deeper.

We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.

In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we've done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can't.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

PEACE is generosity. It is right and it is duty.

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly.112 They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own—not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me.