“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
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.”
William Wordsworth
3 quotes“That best portion of a good man's life His little nameless unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.”
Buddha
2 quotes“Bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukampāya:For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion...”
Thich Nhat Hanh
2 quotes“Compassion is a verb.”
Sir Walter Scott
2 quotes“O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wo...”
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.”