Quotes about Compassion
Give me tender and supple and conformable affections, that as I joy with them that joy, and mourn with them that mourn, so I may fear with them that fear.
— John Donne
For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.
— George Eliot
Take time to make a difference. Don't just obsess about how you can make your life better. Think about how you can make somebody else's life better as well.
— Joel Osteen
When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.
— Publilius Syrus
It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .
— Oswald Chambers
Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
— Ben Stein
Generosity isn't an act. It's a way of life.
— Chip Ingram
It is not my experience that life's difficulties make people more charitable.
— Cormac McCarthy
To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.
— Mother Teresa
O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice
— Philip Yancey