Quotes About Compassion

I am praying every day for peace.

My 4-year-old son prays every night for his best friend who is the same age - our next door neighbor in Liberia, a little Liberian boy: 'Dear God, please don't let him get Ebola.' I'm proud of him for thinking about his friend and praying for him but that's not a prayer that a 4-year-old should have to consider.

How could we claim to love our neighbour while at the same time praying for God to destroy them?

When we say, 'We're here for you,' we mean it to this point - everything we do, everything we preach, every broadcast we come on, everywhere we minister, everything we say and do is prayed, engineered, designed to minister to the people.

I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.

I'm all about preaching forgiveness and compassion.

I am a minister and I preach forgiveness all time.

I'm a minister, I preach forgiveness all the time.

The thing I try to preach the most when anybody asks me for advice - I say just be a good person first and foremost.

And every human being is precious.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is more enduring than fame, more precious than riches, more to be desired than happiness.

There is precious little that's charitable about the world of charity.

This precious thing of empathy and love and understanding is something we have to hold and appreciate and protect.

In bonded labour cases, judges would ask me why I had brought those people to the courts who stank. 'You are here precisely for them,' I would respond.

I realized that a great deal of life is exactly and precisely about being able to feel pain: my own and other people's.

People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn't want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.

There are countries that prefer to think that they're buying comfort at the cost of others, but I don't think that's the way you can act in this world. There are no neutral groups.

I won't wear fur - never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.

There will come a time when very few will care about other people's sexual preference - or preferences.

Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.

I am particularly interested in helping to heal women who have a fistula after their pregnancies.

I don't think that anyone is for abortion in the sense that you hope people are going to have abortions. You hope in an ideal world that every pregnancy is a wanted pregnancy.

Of course everybody is different, but if you're having a strong, healthy pregnancy, there's not a lot you can do to hurt it. That being said, we should do as right as we can by our children, but we just need to be a little more forgiving of ourselves and not so much perfectionists because it's hard enough as it is.