Quotes About Compassion

I believe if you're going to bomb someone you should know them first. It should hurt when you kill someone.

Feed the hungry and you're a saint, ask why they are hungry and you're a communist.

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

To me, understanding people and their lives is what travel is about, no matter where you go.

Travelers recognize that the results of an election here in the US can have a greater impact on poor people half a world away than it does on middle-class American voters. My travels have taught me that, even if motived only by greed, you don't want to be really rich in a desperately poor world. With this in mind, I think of it not as noble or heroic, but simply pragmatic to bring a compassion for the needy along with me into the voting booth.

In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.

It's not about you.

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.

So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.

True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.

Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.

The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.

God intentionally allows you to go through painful experiences to equip you for ministry to others.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.

The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.

It's not what you do, but how much love you put into it that matters.

Dear intelligent people of the world, don't get shampoo in your eyes. It really stings. There. Done. Now fucking stop torturing animals.

You won't burn in hell. But be nice anyway.

A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.

Spirituality really lost its way when it became a stick to beat people with: 'Do this or you'll burn in hell.

Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer

Suggesting I hate people with religion because I hate religion is like suggesting I hate people with cancer because I hate cancer.