Quotes about Compassion
You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.
— John Maxwell
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.
— Ricky Gervais
Suggesting I hate people with religion because I hate religion is like suggesting I hate people with cancer because I hate cancer.
— Ricky Gervais
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