Quotes about Compassion
… The most worthy calling in life is that in which man can serve best his fellow man. … The noblest aim in life is to strive to live to make other lives better and happier.
— David O. McKay
When the storms of life come, if they come to me personally, to my family or to the world, I want to be strong enough to stand and be a strength to somebody else, be shelter for somebody else.
— Anne Graham Lotz
If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.
— John F. Kennedy
The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
— Helen Keller
The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.
— Simon Sinek
Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
— Philip James Bailey
Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor.
— Pope Francis
I felt myself becoming angry too easily. I once saw a couple at a restaurant, and I could tell from their mannerisms that they were having some type of disagreement. I got mad at the guy and wanted to tell him, "Come on — appreciate your wife!
— Jeremy Camp
She chose to look at her surroundings where they "think missionary" mind-set.
— Jeremy Camp
Oh, unheard of compassion of the apostle! In seeking to make the Jews Christians, he himself became a Jew! For he could not have persuaded the luxurious to become temperate if he had not himself become luxurious like them;
— Jerome
And although to the strong he has pointed out the prize of their high calling, [ Philippians 3: 14 ] yet he suffers none to faint by the way; [ Matthew 15: 32 ] while he applauds those who lead the van, he does not despise those who bring up the rear.
— Jerome
he desired so to deliver them from that error as if he saw not them, but himself, entangled in it; thus truly loving his neighbour as himself, and doing to others as he would have others do to him if he required their help—a duty to the statement of which our Lord added these words, " This is the law and the prophets. " [ Matthew 7: 12 ]
— Jerome