Quotes about Compassion
No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.
- Harry S. Truman
Mother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta."
- Shane Claiborne
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
- Mother Teresa
A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.
- Washington Irving
Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?
- Mother Teresa
She is more Mother than Queen.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.
- Mahatma Gandhi
There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.
- Pope John Paul II
Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but.
- Desmond Tutu
Creating a warm, caring, supportive, encouraging environment is probably the most important thing you can do for your family.
- Stephen Covey
We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that way.
- Gordon Hinckley