Jose Rizal Quotes

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the other way. When someone suffers, and it is not you, that person comes first. One's very suffering gives one priority. . . . To watch over one who grieves is a more urgent duty than to think of God.

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

I shall try and effect all that is before me to perform; and God, I think, will surely give me strength for His work so long as He directs my line of duty.

The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so should we.

If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.

It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.

You shall not stand idly by the blood of your neighbor.

When you are called, you serve

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

Everyone has a job to do; that's how I see it.

As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.

Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people's pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else's responsibility and not our own.

I can think of no greater God-given responsibility we have than that of extending a helping hand to our fellow man.

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.

Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.

It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.

You were given that pain and that vision because you have something to do with it.

The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is non-existent.

Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need.

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

Even being a Jedi is something where you look for more. At first you acted as if Jedi was synonymous with hero. It isn't. Being a hero isn't what all these folks are here to do. They're here to do their jobs." -Jaina Solo

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.

Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.

Each man has some part to play.