Quotes about Compassion
Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things man will not find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer
Love sees more with its eyes closed than hate with its eyes open.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force.
- St. John Chrysostom
Raise your thoughts, not your fists.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures peace is our gift to each other.
- Elie Wiesel
When anyone arouses my anger, I will immediately pray for them and regain my peace of soul.
- Mother Angelica
It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.
- Albert Schweitzer
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.
- Peter Kreeft
The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
- Peter Kreeft
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
- Mahatma Gandhi