Quotes about Compassion
Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)
— Booker T. Washington
If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.
— Victor Hugo
There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance.
— Desmond Tutu
There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
— Pope John Paul II
Today wherever you go, carry the intention of peace, love, and harmony in your heart.
— Deepak Chopra
Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.
— Bill Gates
The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Sometimes we are saddened by the weight of our sins. May we not be discouraged. Christ has come to lift this burden and give us peace.
— Pope Francis
Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.
— George Eliot
The power to be at peace - not because of anything your physical senses perceive, and sometimes in spite of what your physical senses perceive - is the power to help heal this world miraculously.
— Marianne Williamson