Quotes about Compassion
Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you want real peace in the world, start with children.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Without justice, there can be no peace.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Only humility will lead us to unity, and unity will lead to peace.
— Mother Teresa
No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it.
— Desmond Tutu
We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
— George Bernard Shaw
There will be no peace in the world until there is peace in our hearts.
— Marianne Williamson
God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.
— Wendell Berry
there is no path to peace, but peace itself is the path.
— Fr. Richard Rohr