Quotes about Compassion

The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required.

Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel.

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

I have prayed with the families and wept at the funerals of Hoosiers who did not shrink from 9-11 but grew into heroes whose names will forever be engraved in the heart of a grateful nation.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Every retarded, deformed, crippled, handicapped, or senile person, who has been baptized, is a powerhouse for good in a wicked world by reason of the grace of God that dwells in his soul.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

Jesus taught that we should give to the poor and support widows, but he never said that we should elect a government that would take money from our neighbor's hand and give it to the poor.

I began to think about those that were in my situation that were not able to walk out of an abusive marriage, or maybe those that did not know where to go, that were in a single headed marriage, or widows. I was thinking what it was I could do to reach out to them.

There are widows who long for friendly voices and that spirit of anxious concern which speaks of love.