Quotes about Compassion
I believe in grace because I've seen it and peace because I've felt it and forgiveness because I've needed it.
— George W. Bush
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
— Mother Teresa
Ah! Happy they whose hearts can breakAnd peace of pardon win!How else may man make straight his pathAnd cleanse his soul from sin?How else but through a broken heartMay the Lord Christ enter in?
— Oscar Wilde
If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
— Mother Teresa
Peace like charity begins at home.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things man will not find peace.
— Albert Schweitzer
Love sees more with its eyes closed than hate with its eyes open.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force.
— St. John Chrysostom
Raise your thoughts, not your fists.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures peace is our gift to each other.
— Elie Wiesel