Quotes about Compassion

Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus.

Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Many people think… that the Christian commandments (for instance, loving your neighbor as yourself) are purposely made too strict—rather like the clock being put half an hour fast to prevent them getting up much too late in the morning.

No man has believed perfectly until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.

Do nothing unto anyone that you would not like to have done unto yourself. Seek peace, and never be the aggressor—but if anyone attacks you, we do not teach you to turn the other cheek.

I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man—and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their 'differences' in color.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

Do not be ashamed of help.

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

Don't be irritated at people's smell or bad breath. What's the point? With that mouth, with those armpits, they're going to produce that odor. —But they have a brain! Can't they figure it out? Can't they recognize the problem? So you have a brain as well. Good for you. Then use your logic to awaken his. Show him. Make him realize it. If he'll listen, then you'll have solved the problem. Without anger.

It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.