Quotes about Compassion

our hearts in your mercy, Lord : and establish your mercy in our hearts. Micah 3:1 — 8 Matthew 10:16 — 42

Lord, keep us from speaking of love while hoarding the gifts you have given us. Make us full of discontent as long as there are brothers and sisters living and dying in hunger. Amen.

ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.

According to Mother Teresa, it is among the wealthy that we can find the most terrible poverty of all—loneliness. So perhaps I was still among the poorest of the poor, but these poor folks had some cash!

That's why we give people fish, and also teach people to fish, and then also do something about who owns the pond. These all have to go together like a tripod or a three-legged stool. Without one leg, the stool get a little wobbly and out of balance. Charity workers need to also have a vision for justice. And justice workers need to keep their feet on the streets of injustice.

Mother Teresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta.

Tony Campolo, back at Eastern College: "Jesus never says to the poor, 'Come find the church,' but he says to those of us in the church, 'Go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned,' Jesus in his disguises.

And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.

Mother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta.

There are some things to die for but none to kill for.

When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.

Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border.