Quotes about Compassion
A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.
— St. Augustine
I think in the end, God's justice is redemptive, it's restorative, it's about giving life, not taking life.
— Shane Claiborne
The goal of life is not to have our lives mean something to ourselves. The goal of life is to have our lives mean something to others.
— Simon Sinek
I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls
— Victor Hugo
I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.
— John Piper
A life not lived for others is not a life, a game not played for others is not a game.
— John Wooden
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.
— Joseph Addison
Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves? Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.
— Joyce Meyer
Life is chaotic. It's messy. That's what Jesus was stepping into.
— Louie Giglio
The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .
— Mahatma Gandhi