Quotes about Compassion

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Think higher, feel deeper.

We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.

In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we've done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can't.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

PEACE is generosity. It is right and it is duty.

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly.112 They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own—not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me.

To really find God is to search for him not only in ourselves, not only in our loved ones, not only in our neighbors, not only in the strangers that we encounter, but ultimately in our enemies as well.

Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.