Quotes about Compassion

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

When death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest—I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

We are children of a large family, and must learn, as such children do, not to expect that our little hurts will be made much of - to be content with little nurture and caressing, and help each other the more.

There is no escaping the fact that want of sympathy condemns us to a corresponding stupidity.

When we are treated well, we naturally begin to think that we are not altogether unmeritous, and that it is only just we should treat ourselves well, and not mar our own good fortune.