Quotes about Compassion
Love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men.
- Luke 6:35
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
- Charles Dickens
Have mercy on me, O God, because of your unfailing love. Because of your great compassion, blot out the stain of my sins.
- Psalm 51:1
Because of the lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.
- Lamentations 3:22
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
- John 3:18
The worst disease in the world is hate. And the cure for hate is love.
- India Arie
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
- Thomas Merton
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.
- Barbara Johnson
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
- Euripides
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel