Quotes about Compassion

People have to realize that just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean that you're perfect, because every once in a while everyone stumbles.

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

We are commanded to seek out those who are lost. We are to be our brother's keeper.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them.

I'm not that kinda guy to hold a grudge.

We have to learn to be kinder to ourselves.

What you realize when you work in the philanthropic world is that people aren't just numbers: they are families with real needs and you need to make your judgments with kindness and thoughtfulness in order to serve those needs.

Jesus is the movement for social justice, and the movement for social justice is Jesus in the present.

On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villainous or miserable, as one to whom Jesus Christ is Brother and God is Father; and we have to deal with him on this assumption. If the other person knows that already, then we have to strengthen him in the knowledge. If he does no know it yet or no longer knows it, our business is to transmit this knowledge to him.

Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.