Quotes about Compassion

I'm just not convinced that Jesus is going to say, "When I was hungry, you gave a check to the United Way and they fed me.

My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

I never knew You lived so close to the floor, but every time I am bowed down, crushed by this weight of grief, I feel Your hand on my head, Your breath on my cheek, Your tears on my neck. You never tell me to pull myself together, to stem the flow of many years. You simply stay by my side for as long as it takes, so close to the floor.

You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.

Every time you help someone else, not only are you helping that person, but you are helping every person they touch, AND you are helping yourself - because we are all ONE.

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

I tell people all the time, preached a couple Sundays about it. I'm for everybody. You may not agree with me, but to me it's not my job to try to straighten everybody out.

God is not asking us to not have anything or even to give away every single thing that we have. He is asking us to share with people who have less than us, which we do all the time.

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.

We who formerly hated and murdered one another now live together and share the same table. We pray for our enemies and try to win those who hate us.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.