A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‚Father, the atheists?‘ Even the atheists. Everyone!

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

I just don’t like killing creatures.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC’s military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

I don’t know if I’m selfless – I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that’s not completely selfless. But the truth is I’m not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That’s always been how I am.

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Anyone who wants to be pope doesn’t care much for themselves, God doesn’t bless them. I didn’t want to be pope.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn’t care about suffering. I always did.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.