Quotes about Compassion
God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.
- Jurgen Moltmann
The church speaks finally in that it prays for the world.
- Karl Barth
But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.
- James A. Garfield
The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Man is born for deeds of kindness.
- Marcus Aurelius
It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.
- Marcus Aurelius
Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.
- Cicero
Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.
- Cicero
We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
- Phillips Brooks
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
- Thomas Paine
We are saved by a man who died loving his enemies.
- Timothy Keller