Appeals Quote by Frederick Rolfe

A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake,…

— Henry Fielding

Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it…

— Samuel Richardson

A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.

— Alphonsus Liguori

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a…

— Francis Bacon

A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both…

— Saint Augustine

People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment.…

— Hjalmar Söderberg

The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the…

— Aldous Huxley

A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.

— Saul Bellow

“Let him consider how all want of love, all indifference to the needs, the feelings, the weakness of others; all sharp and hasty judgments…

— Andrew Murray

It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God

— Brigit of Kildare