Quotes about Compassion
God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If one by one we counted people outFor the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.
— Robert Frost
They may not deserve forgiveness but I do.
— Anonymous
In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.
— Philipp Melanchthon
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
— St. Augustine
If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.
— Abraham Lincoln
Because we are free, we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere.
— Jimmy Carter
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
— Abraham Lincoln
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
— Abraham Lincoln
All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.
— Aristotle
Two in distressmake sorrow less.
— Samuel Beckett