“We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.”
Others on Compassion
William Wordsworth
3 quotes“That best portion of a good man's life His little nameless unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.”
Dalai Lama
3 quotes“The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question...”
Simone de Beauvoir
3 quotes“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others by means of love friendship indignation an...”
Barack Obama
3 quotes“Our values call upon us to care about people we'll never meet.”
Plato
3 quotes“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
Albert Schweitzer
3 quotes“The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.”
Horace Mann
2 quotes“Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.”
Susan Sontag
2 quotes“It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's.”
Anne Frank
2 quotes“Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart.”
Indira Gandhi
2 quotes“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
St. Francis of Assisi
2 quotes“The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today”
Tennessee Williams
2 quotes“To you, whoever you are, when I am gone — remember to be kind tonight to some lonely person. For me.”