Quotes about Compassion
These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today, Abortion...For the pregnant women who don't want their children, give them to me.
- Mother Teresa
He who does not love does not know God; for God is love
- John 4:8
The secret of loving is living loved.
- Max Lucado
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and in reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.
- Mother Teresa
Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love, and you shall be loved
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't forget to love yourself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
...truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, --else it is none.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
- Mother Teresa
Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee
- John of the Cross
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
- George Eliot