Quotes about Compassion

Handing out free food and clothes was a charitable act. Approaching the powers was a political act.

The problem is that people we cannot stand are loved just as much as we are, by a God with an upsetting sense of community.

The only clear line I draw these days is this: when my religion tries to come between me and my neighbor, I will choose my neighbor. That self-canceling feature of my religion is one of the things I like best about it. Jesus never commanded me to love my religion.

However you define the problematic present-day stranger—the religious stranger, the cultural stranger, the transgendered stranger, the homeless stranger—scripture's wildly impractical solution is to love the stranger as the self.

The problem was that I could not teach other people's religions without loving them as I loved my own, or at least giving it my best shot.

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

God is the one who always remembers those whom history has forgotten.

It's amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they're doing. I've learned to take notice of those things and if it's something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

I am realizing that there are opportunities everyday to encourage, evangelize, or exhort someone.