Compassion is not just feeling with someone, but seeking to change the situation. Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action! —Desmond Tutu More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has the eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. —Augustine More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God is hiding in the world and our task is to let the divine emerge from our deeds. —Abraham Joshua Heschel More about this quote Tags: God hiding deeds works Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it. —Stephen Colbert More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian businessman. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: character Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There cannot be two different faiths, one for you and one for the poor. The question on which the whole social problem really pivots is whether you recognize in the less fortunate, even in the poorest, not merely a creature, a person in wretched circumstances, but one of your own flesh and blood: for the sake of Christ, your brother. It is exactly this noble sentiment that, sad to say, has been weakened and dulled in such a provoking manner by the materialism of this century. —Abraham Kuyper More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: desire trying Christian Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. —Helen Keller More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Religion is to be used as a stepping stone to God, but it must never be used as a tower to hold one aloft from others. We are all cells in the body of humanity. When anyone attempts to isolate another, they only isolate themselves more. —Peace Pilgrim More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. —Susan B. Anthony More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every time I see a TV evangelist I can't help but think that if God wanted to talk to me through the TV, I think he could get a spot on a major network. —Margot Black More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true. —Flannery O'Connor More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself. —Miguel de Unamuno More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every day people are straying away from the Church and going back to God. —Lenny Bruce More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Christ could certainly not have established the Church, that is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling our present conception of the Church — with its sacraments, its hierarchy, and especially its claim to infallibility — is to be found either in Christ's words or in the conceptions of the men of his time. —Leo Tolstoy More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email