Quotes about Compassion
No one may forsake their neighbors when they are in trouble. Everybody is under obligation to help and support their neighbors as they would themselves like to be helped.
— Martin Luther
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
— George W. Bush
Anybody who helps the poor is delighted.
— Mother Teresa
Lord help me to see M. L. King as M. L. King in his true perspective.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't wound someone's eye trying to remove the twig from it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.
— George H. W. Bush
With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds.
— Abraham Lincoln
We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.
— Oscar Romero
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
— Amelia Earhart
We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.
— Mother Teresa
True Hospitality is welcoming the stranger on her own terms. This kind of hospitality can only be offered by those who've found the center of their lives in their own hearts.
— Henri Nouwen
A compassionate open home is part of Christian responsibility, and should be practiced up to the level of capacity.
— Francis Schaeffer