Quotes about Compassion

Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.

We must either learn to live together as brothers, or we are going to die together as fools.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.

Our goal is to create a beloved community and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.

I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.

Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny, to a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.

My call to the ministry was not a miraculous or supernatural something. On the contrary it was an inner urge calling me to serve humanity.

If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.

Through violence you may murder the hater, but you cannot murder hate.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

This is the glory of our religion: that when man decides to rise up from his mistakes, from his sin, from his evil, there is a loving God saying, "Come home, I still love you.

Third, we must not seek to defeat or humiliate the enemy but to win his friendship and understanding. At times we are able to humiliate our worst enemy. Inevitably, his weak moments come and we are able to thrust in his side the spear of defeat. But this we must not do. Every wood and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill that have been blocked by impenetrable walls of hate.