Pastoral Resources

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I'm out there to win.

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice.

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.