Quotes about Compassion
When anyone arouses my anger, I will immediately pray for them and regain my peace of soul.
— Mother Angelica
It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.
— Albert Schweitzer
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.
— Peter Kreeft
The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
— Elie Wiesel
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
— Peter Kreeft
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be and I shall be. Yes, we shall all be capable of it one day, and that will be salvation.
— Albert Camus
Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others.
— Germany Kent
Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
— Frederick Buechner
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
— Thomas Jefferson
The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.
— A Powell Davies