Quotes about Compassion
What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?
- RC Sproul
The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
- Ashley Montagu
What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.
- Bob Marley
What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.
- Mother Teresa
Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart.
- Hannah More
A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.
- John Milton
The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.
- St. Augustine
It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Where there's compassion, no heirarchy can exist. Where men are allowed to create themselves as equals, evil cannot thrive or survive.
- Dean Frazer
In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.
- Abraham Lincoln
To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.
- Albert Schweitzer
We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.
- Albert Schweitzer