Quotes about Compassion
The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.
- Elie Wiesel
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
- Marianne Williamson
The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.
- Leonard Ravenhill
If I look at the mass I will never act.
- Mother Teresa
Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is in our power to stretch out our arms and, by doing good in our actions, to seize life and set it in our soul.
- Origen
Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around.
- Harold S. Kushner
In each of us, there lies a divine connection to a power more powerful than hate or violence. Today is the day to attune to that power and use it on behalf of peace on earth.
- Marianne Williamson
Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.
- Khalil Gibran
We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.
- Watchman Nee
None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of world we live in.
- Harold S. Kushner