Suffering Of Others Quotes by Mary Robinson, Mother Teresa, Alexander McCall Smith, Teju Cole, Rebecca Lee Crumpler, George C. Wallace and many others.
Many people today in the developed countries are so far removed from poverty and suffering and starvation that they lack empathy for the sufferings of others.
Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
It’s through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
There’s a reticence necessary when you consider the suffering of others. Into the space created by that reticence, you bring in those things that best help us confront ambiguity: music, painting, film, and so on.
I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others.
Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.
Compassion allows us to accept everything. That’s why there’s always a tear in the eye of the Buddha that no one sees, for the pain and suffering of others.
I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.
Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. … To make that the highest test of virtue is to make suffering the most important part of life. Then man must wish to see others suffer in order that he may be virtuous. Such is the nature of altruism.
one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us
Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.
The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being
If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.
You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.
Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horros in other people’s lives as if they were genuinely concerned to help them, but the truth was that they took pleasure in the suffering of others, because that made them believe they were happy and that life had been generous with them
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.
