Quotes about Compassion
Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me
- Alice Walker
The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
- St. John Chrysostom
There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nature has inclined us to love men.
- Cicero
I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The product of a true, growing, gospel-centered nature is often gentleness.
- Timothy Keller
Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.
- Cicero
Only the brave know how to forgive it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
- Laurence Sterne
There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
- Charles Dickens
Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."
- Paul Tillich