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Compassion Quotes


"The greatest thing a human being can do is to be compassionate to humanity."


"As the aperture of your heart opens to love you will receive more of the light of compassion, acceptance, gentleness, grace and understanding."


"Do not judge. But pray for grace for all people."


"When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster."


"God needs are in the needs of people."


"Love manifests itself in loving attitudes and acts."


"The more you put your arm around those that you might naturally look down on, the more you will love yourself. And the more you love yourself, the less need you'll ever have to find fault or be better than others. And the less we all find fault or have a need to be better than others, the quicker this world becomes a far better place to live."


"The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind."


"Love is the easiest way of evangelism."


"We ought to love and be gentle with one another."


"The authentic human has the might of compassion and the creative power to do any manner of good."


"Let your neighbor's needs be your concern."


"Always wear a jacket of love and a smile of gratitude."


"One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day."


"We must heal this terminally ill world with love."


"Rain is just God weeping for Earth's troubles."


"One's suffering, one's melancholy is, in itself, really only looked upon as failure or as punishment, as detestable or sinful or socially unacceptable in the eyes of man; but this is not so in the eyes of God: for He is close to the broken-hearted."


"The greatest you is found in the kindest you."


"Love and kindness are most precious where there is endless suffering."


"In someone's darkest hour your simple act of kindness may imitate the sunrise, and to sad eyes you become their only source of light."


"Love is the nature of who God is."


"Let us welcome each other with tender love."


"I can be tolerant of traffic jams and disorganization, faulty technology, miserable weather, and bland foods. People, however, require more than the cold, grudging favor of being tolerated. They require love."


"The only way to love God is by loving His people."


"To commune with God is to understand love because God is love."


"Sit with me, and I'll not be alone.Hold my hand, and I'll not feel alone.Cry with me, and I'll no longer suffer alone."


"The practice of understanding, forgiveness, and love is the best practice for a peaceful world."


"Love can extend far beyond the people whom we know and it makes us a part of something much greater than ourselves."


"You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion."


"Wisdom without Christ brings bitterness, with Christ it brings compassion."


"Before hurting an animal, feel her pain and see her tears. Then question your conscience."


"When you learn to kill animals, you are unconsciously teaching cruelty to other creations."


"He held out a shaky and worn hand and she met it with one of her young and inexperienced ones."
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