Quotes about Compassion

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.

Great achievement! I learn how to be tolerant when I become the victim of somebody else's spiritual pride [1928].

it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable

We need people, Juliet, to show us our selfishness, to extract the ugliness that reveals itself in our hearts.

Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.

Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling a man with a broken leg to get up and run a race.

The more they love each other, the more they participate in each other's griefs, and one or the other will be frequently under some sort of suffering.

Thou has heard the words of Christ. . . . Dost thou weep, when I have thee, Poor soul, what aileth thee? Dost thou weep, when I have wept so much? Be of good cheer ; thy wounds are saving, and not deadly. It is I that have made them, who mean thee no hurt : though I let out thy blood, I will not let out thy life (628).