Quotes About Compassion

People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!

I love chickens. Everyone loves chickens, don't they?

I like to write about a lot of things, which is why my books are different. This is probably why I don't like to write sequels, but chiefly I like to write about people.

Romance is quite an overblown word. This idea of chocolates and champagne and that's it. There's more to love than that. Romance is quite a soppy word. Love is much more important.

We hold our hate too choice a thing, for light and careless lavishing.

I think that you really don't have a choice, when you see that things are wrong the only choice you really have is to just do what you can to make it better.

Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything.

It's hard for anyone to say that they chose to put their parent in a home rather than give up a large part of their own life to care for them, and thinking about the years leading up to my father's death still punishes me.

Chris didn't only leave a legacy of work. He left a legacy of love.

Be the kind of friend who takes people to Christ.

There's been a lot of simple vilification of right-wing people. It's really easy to say, 'Well, you're Christian, you're anti-this and that, and I hate you.' But to me, it's more interesting to say, 'What is this person like and how do they really think?'

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.

There's enough hard stuff going on in people's lives, and you really need that joy that laughter can bring. I don't have to put that in a Christian compartment.

A Christian's example is always Jesus.

Christian life means sacrifice.

A lot of people have done things in the name of Christianity and religion and faith in a not-so-nice way.

I feel like Christianity gets very misconstrued sometimes. People don't realize that every day is a normal day just like anybody else, but we're just trying to improve every day. It's not about putting anybody down or telling anybody they're wrong. It's more about trying to do what's right for your own self.

See how these Christians love one another.

If Christians want to be the hands and feet of Christ, we need to not judge those that are different from us.

I think many times Christians don't really take the opportunity to hear what people are saying and seeing in the world around them.

There's a little Christmas in all of us, I guess. Even in me.

I know CEOs, and they get sick when they have to lay people off, especially around Christmas.

Chronic pain can be very lonely. It can have a shame-based quality.

Even at church, people would not shake my hand.