Quotes about Compassion

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.

Let him who desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.

The world is healed one loving thought at a time.

I think if Jesus came for the first time, and he was 33 1/2 years old and hung out with these guys, where would he be? They'd probably be at a coffee bar getting a latte or something.

I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.

Find someone who is having a hard time or is ill or lonely, and do something for him or her.