Quotes About Compassion

What does it mean to be an American today? It's a question that will answer itself if we get back to what's brought us this far: widening the circle of opportunity, deepening the meaning of freedom, and strengthening bonds of community. Shrinking the definition of them and expanding the definition of us. Leaving no one behind, left out, looked down on.

Even on the bad days, there's always something good you can do.

We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more than having affairs with our wives." ? Bill Clinton

Our job is to live as well and as long as we can, and to help others to do the same. What happens after that and how we are viewed by others is beyond our control.

You've got to be tough as nails with your tender heart

A culture of forgiveness makes any community irresistible.

As we mature, however, we realize that in order to embrace everyone at the table, we must be willing to release the grip on our personal agenda and see what is best for the community.

It must grieve the Holy Spirit when a group or a family or a church communicates "not welcome" to those who desperately long for a place at the table.

And it's a huge boon for animal welfare whenever fewer livestock are being kept in small cages.

I didn't think it was fair for anyone to tell Indians that their children couldn't have lights to study by, or that thousands of Indians should die in heat waves because installing air conditioners is bad for the environment.

True friends love one another, even though we're all a little quirky.

The adventure of collaborating with God involves bestowing the greatest gift a person can receive — the gift of amazing grace — on undeserving (and often unsuspecting) people like you and me.

Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.

the well-being of the other person is more important than the current comfort level in the relationship.

Deep friendships are forged in the fire of pain. If

To love as God loves, in other words, you may have to part with whatever is most precious to you for the sake of someone else.

The world writes books with titles like Think and Grow Rich, but if Jesus were writing for today's market, he'd title his book Love and Give Everything Away.

We are oblivious to suffering. We are cheap with charity if it's not close to our home.

Show me a man, any man, he is my brother. Show me a bigot, any bigot, he is my enemy.

You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are so soft and huggy.

Specifically, I'd like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it's less wasteful.

The problem with people is that they're only human.

it's a tough thing having to step aside for a friend, when your heart's breaking and your nether parts are still tangled up in their base desires.

We have to harden our hearts and think of the greater good. The plan is, our exposure to her is supposed to purify us. But it seems more like her exposure to us is diminishing her.