Quotes about Compassion

Charity must become a fundamental state of mind and heart that guides us in all we do.

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

I can't even kill a lobster without saying a Hail Mary for it.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

No, really: I can't fight, I never could. I can't bring myself to dislike anyone enough.

I don't want to punish anybody, but there are an extraordinary number of people who I might want to kill.

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.