Quotes about Compassion
The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, Me too.
- Rob Bell
In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.
- Rowan Williams
God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We serve God by serving our fellow man; kids are suffering from malnutrition. People are going to the fields hungry. If you are a Christian, we are tired of being mistreated.
- Fannie Lou Hamer
God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help.
- Harold S. Kushner
God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.
- Henri Nouwen
In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
- Henri Nouwen
CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.
- John Piper
To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
- DA Carson
Only God knows hearts, and so only He can say, in truth, "I know how you feel."
- Henry B. Eyring
The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.
- Abraham Lincoln
We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place.
- AW Tozer