Quotes about Compassion

It is kindness in a person, not beauty that wins our love.

You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.

A little rain can straighten a flower stem. A little love can change a life.

The honorary duty of a human being is to love.

There is no sin but the lack of love.

It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5)

Though you have sinned much, that is no reason why you should despair, but only why you should love much, having so much forgiven.

Love is the Answer. What was the Question?

Never do anything out of obligation. Do everything with gratitude and love.

Yes!" the carpenter exclaimed. "When you love, you serve, and when you serve, you sacrifice. Service requires a sacrifice of something. Whether it's time, energy, money, love, effort, or focus, serving others always costs you something, but with service and sacrifice, you gain so much more.

There are always two sides to every story, and it is generally wise, and safe, and charitable, to take the best; and yet there is probably no one way in which persons are so liable to be wrong, as in presuming the worst is true, and in forming and expressing their judgement of others, and of their actions, without waiting till all the truth is known.

If we be never obliged to relieve others' burdens, but when we can do it without burdening ourselves, then how do we bear our neighbor's burdens, when we bear no burden at all?