Quotes about Compassion

And so I would not enforce a law that would reject people and turn them away without giving them a fair and due process to determine if we should give them asylum and refuge.

I would never turn my back on my fellow citizens.

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

To me, it's OK to have differences. But we don't have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that's where sometimes we get so passionate that we - you know, it turns into anger.

I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender.

I am inspired beyond my ability to articulate... and now I know what and who I want to be... a soldier for peace.

The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to love.

Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.

I have learned God doesn't always change those people we want Him to change; instead, He often uses them to change us.

God does not want to make us comfortable as much as He wants to make us comfort-able - to take the comfort that we receive and share it with others.

The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

God wants to help you find your way home.