Quotes about Compassion

Who in your life is one step ahead of you in knowing people? What does that person do?

We don't aim to draw out problems so that we can be helpers. We are simply interested in knowing another person, which is a basic feature of everyday love.

In an African hospital, a pastor who had just witnessed another death was approached by a poor, elderly woman. "You know," she said, taking my [the pastor's] arm, "through many losses of family and friends and through much sorrow, the Lord has taught me one thing. Jesus Christ did not come to take away our pain and suffering, but to share in it."

Most gifts emerge in the context of serving people.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

I love Humanity but I hate humans