Compassion

“Never apologize for showing feeling, my friend. Remember that when you do so, you apologize for truth.”

“But whoever has the material possessions of this world and sees his brother in need and yet refuses to show him compassion, in what way does the love of God remain in him? Little children, we should love, not in word or with the tongue, but in deed and truth.”

“The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”

“Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.”

“A religious man is a person … whose greatest passion is compassion.”

“IT IS compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.”

“Men are only great as they are kind.”

“I will show mercy to whomever I will show mercy, and I will show compassion to whomever I will show compassion.”

“We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.”

“The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.”

“Compassion in the highest degree is the divinest form of religion.”

“Responding to evil even towards those who enjoy injuring others.”

“Go to the center of your inner being. Radiate peace in every direction. A compassionate heart radiates rays of beauty that removes the clouds of million hearts.”

“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”

“In the just and generous heart, the humble and the weak inspire compassion, and call for pity and forbearance.”

“To become wholly compassionate requires us to open our eyes and hearts, to behold the pain and exploitation our culture obscures, to arouse deadened emotions, and to rise above our egos.”

“The lion who lives a life of compassion will receive it.”

“It is not sufficient to have compassion only for those who are cute.”

“I could see their woe and sadness, and I pledged to ease their pain; their suffering would not be in vain.”

“Compassion is when you see that someone needs help and you wanna help 'em.”

“There never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate.”

“When death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.”

“While we would have our young sisters imitate, as they cannot fail to love, the conduct of Ruth, will not their elders do well to ponder on, and imitate the tenderness of Naomi? Would we have our daughters Ruths, we must be Naomis.”

“I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.”