Franz Wright Quotes

The heart of Jesus is compassionate and understanding. It has felt the sting of ingratitude, and when my heart suffers from that same offense, I can turn to him, and he understands my feelings.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Pity is treason

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!

What is called generosity is really compassion. In the Shin'ei it is written "Seen from the eye of compassion, there is noone to be disliked. One who has sinned is to be pitied all the more." There is no limit to the breadth and depth of ones heart. There is room enough for all. That we still worship the sages of the three ancient kingdoms is because their compassion reaches us yet today.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.

Care and pity are two different things.

Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.