Quotes about Compassion
If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.
— Proverbs 25:21
For in so doing, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you.
— Proverbs 25:22
Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
— Proverbs 27:10
A destitute leader who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no food.
— Proverbs 28:3
The righteous consider the cause of the poor, but the wicked have no regard for such concerns.
— Proverbs 29:7
The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: The LORD gives light to the eyes of both.
— Proverbs 29:13
Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.
— Proverbs 31:8
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.
— Proverbs 31:9
She opens her arms to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.
— Proverbs 31:20
Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
— Ecclesiastes 4:1
For you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others.
— Ecclesiastes 7:22
Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
— Isaiah 1:17