Quotes about Compassion

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

Whenever you're going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

God will take care of the poor trampled slave, but where will the slaveholder be when eternity begins?

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

I feel very passionately that we need to take care of the planet and everything on it. Whether it's saving the Amazon or just being kind to those around you, we need to take care of each other and Mother Earth.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight.

I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others - we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.

Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in our hearts makes us resentful and keeps our memory in a constant whirlwind of passion and self-pity.