To forgive does not mean to forget; to forgive means, with compassion and pain in the soul, to say: when the Last Judgment comes, I will stand up and say: do not judge him, Lord. Anthony of Sourozh
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim. Boris Pasternak
We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence. Aldous Huxley
But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion. Amy Grant
The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion. Everett Dirksen
I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain. Thomas Aquinas