Quotes about Compassion
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
— Albert Einstein
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.
— Dorothy Day
"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
— George Eliot
For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within.
— Frederick Buechner
True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.
— Erwin McManus
We have to find the back door to peoples' hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.
— Ravi Zacharias
Sin is not just breaking God's laws; it is breaking His heart.
— Adrian Rogers
You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
— St. Augustine