Quotes about Compassion
It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.
- Dorothy Day
We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
- Harry S. Truman
I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.
- Mother Teresa
Everybody needs a helping hand, take a look at your fellow man.
- Amy Grant
We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.
- Isabel Allende
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
- Elie Wiesel
Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)
- Booker T. Washington
If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.
- Victor Hugo
There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance.
- Desmond Tutu
There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
- Pope John Paul II
Today wherever you go, carry the intention of peace, love, and harmony in your heart.
- Deepak Chopra
Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen