Inspirational Quotes on Compassion

“Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one.”

“My whole soul was unspeakably bewildered and lost in myself and I knew of nothing that seemed likely to make me happy, in case I could with the greatest ease have obtained the best good that I had any conception of. And being that lost I became a suitable object for the compassion of Jesus Christ to be set upon, since he came to "seek and to save that which is lost.”

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

“None knows the weight of another's burden.”

“Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.”

“If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.”

“Martin Luther used to say temptation is the best teacher for a minister.”

“Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.”

“Pursue not a victory too far. He hath conquered well that hath made his enemy fly; thou mayest beat him to a desperate resistance, which may ruin thee.”

“People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.”

“So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the Trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for Abolition. Let the consequences be what they would, I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.”

“Jesus is persecuted in every injured saint, and He is mighty to avenge His beloved ones.”

“His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion.”

“Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.”

“Were both the golden Indies mine, I'd give both Indies for a tear.”

“God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.”

“Jesus loved manhood so much, that He delighted to honour it; and since it is a high honour, and indeed, the greatest dignity of manhood, that Jesus is the Son of man,”

“I have never had better opinions of woman than I had of her”