Quotes about Compassion
God's vision for us doesn't just reassure us that we matter and that our lives do count for something. God's vision compels us to look beyond ourselves, to ponder a picture of how things were meant to be that leaves us aching for his will to be done on earth as it is in heaven, and to look for ways to participate in moving the world toward that goal. One of the biggest issues confronting us today is the battle cry of Amy Carmichael and the burning challenge of Half the Sky.
— Carolyn Custis James
The widow becomes God's Exhibit A to teach the world (and his people in particular) how far we have to go before our thoughts and actions line up with his.
— Carolyn Custis James
Conflict brings out the leader in us, transforms our lives from the mundane to the cosmic, and by God's grace forges us into more compassionate, selfless leaders.
— Carolyn Custis James
I want a kinder, gentler nation.
— George H. W. Bush
Remember Luke, the suffering of one man is the suffering of all. Distances are irrelevant to injustice. If not stopped soon enough, evil will eventually reaches out to engulf all men, whether they have opposed it or ignored it.
— George Lucas
God's "wrath only goes forth because God is Love, and because sin is that which injures His children and is opposed to the purpose of His love.
— George Knight
Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
— George W. Bush
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
— George W. Bush
Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.
— George W. Bush
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.
— George Washington Carver
No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.
— George Whitefield
The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.
— Aesop