I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.

It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

The real power in helping somebody to be transformed is not to do something to them but to join with them.

In respect to the danger of being killed by them, it is true that whoever does go must put his life in his hand, and not consult with flesh and blood; but do not the goodness of the cause, the duties incumbent on us as the creatures of God, and Christians, and the perishing state of our fellow men, loudly call upon us to venture all and use every warrantable exertion for their benefit?

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

Be daily, therefore, on your knees, in a solemn deliberate performance of this devotion, praying for others in such forms, with such length, importunity, and earnestness, as you use for yourself; and you will find all little, ill-natured passions die away, your heart grow great and generous, delighting in the common happiness of others, as you used only to delight in your own.

Instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.

Decide that you don't mind being inconvenienced or interrupted, and God will use you to make a difference.

If you'll dare to take your mind off your troubles, get your mind off your own needs and, instead, seek to be a blessing to other people, God will do more for you than you could even ask or think.