Quotes about Compassion
Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.
— Mother Teresa
When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.
— Desmond Tutu
Good will cannot flow toward you unless it flows from you.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
— Thomas Merton
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
— Euripides
If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.
— Dag Hammarskjold
If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.
— Rob Bell
I believe our world desperately needs Good News.
— Rob Bell
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
— Thomas Jefferson
If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.
— Oprah Winfrey
God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
— Teresa of Avila
I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.
— Pope Francis