Quotes about Compassion
When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play.
— Alveda King
Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.
— Pope Francis
Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.
— Michael Novak
I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'
— Dolly Parton
A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.
— Billy Graham
Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.
— Dolly Parton
It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
— Ambrose of Milan
To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
— Dag Hammarskjold
Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.
— Pope Francis
Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.
— Rick Warren
The only thing that really depresses me is animal cruelty.
— Ricky Gervais