Quotes about Compassion
Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful.
— Desmond Tutu
Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No.
— Desmond Tutu
I hope that when the time comes, I am treated with compassion and allowed to pass on to the next phase of life's journey in the manner of my choice.
— Desmond Tutu
Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.
— Elie Wiesel
Did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.
— Elie Wiesel
People need to understand, we can come together as a nation; we can create a culture of life.
— Mike Pence
The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
— Philip Yancey
Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.
— Phillips Brooks
Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days, with our neighbors.
— Phillips Brooks
Many things in life inspire philanthropy, such as your faith in humanity and your belief in the human spirit to overcome.
— Oprah Winfrey
Life isn't about what you have but what you have to give.
— Oprah Winfrey