Ruskin Bond Quotes

Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.

...the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.

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

We are not by nature cruel.

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

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

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

You can't look in the face of adoration and be cruel.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

Love is stronger than justice.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

We're a compassionate nation.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

I believe there's good in everybody.

We do not live by justice, but by grace.

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

Thus He whose tender mercies are over all His works hath placed a principle in the human mind, which incites to exercise goodness towards every living creature; and this being singly attended to, people become tender-hearted and sympathizing; but when frequently and totally rejected, the mind becomes shut up in a contrary disposition.

To love is human, it is also human to forgive.

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.