Quotes about Compassion

As it is more blessed to give than receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.

People who love their enemies should, at least, tell the truth about their friends.

Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.

Perhaps the things that break our hearts are the very things that serve to open them.

I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there can be any kindness I can show, or any good thing that I can do to any fellow-being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

The purpose of life is to love.

Eighth letter : The purpose of life is to love How well you live comes to how much you love. The heart is wiser than the head. Honor it. Trust it follow it.

The world's going a little berserk. Too much greed and not enough good sense.

There in the course of one hour, a little elderly woman who embodied the spirit of nonviolence single-handedly prevented loss of life, and a preppie young man with fast fists flying also prevented violence. I would not presume to judge who was doing the will of God on that snowy February afternoon.

Until that moment, I only saw Jesus as the Son of God. I knew he had come down to earth, but that night for the first time it dawned on me: He understands me. He walked in my shoes! As a matter of fact, he was sort of a toogee. You know? His daddy — his earthly father — wasn't his real daddy. He slept in the straw as a child. He was ridiculed and abused. They chased him and tried to kill him.

there's a cartoon of two turtles. One says, 'Sometimes I'd like to ask why he allows poverty, famine, and injustice when he could do something about it.' The other turtle says, 'I'm afraid God might ask me the same question.' Those