Joel Osteen Quotes

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)

The more we stretch the muscle called compassion and generosity, the stronger we get, the better we feel about ourselves, the more loving we become to the world around us.

Those who are willing to sacrifice and be of service have very little difficulty with people. They know what they are all about. People can't help but want to be near them. They help them; they work with them. That's what love is all about. It starts with your heart and radiates out.

We love most those who we serve most.

At times we can be self-absorbed. Lord, help us to open our hearts to others and to serve those who are most vulnerable.

You don't have to be one of the Elders. You don't have to be well known. You just have to be determined to care about people. That's all it takes.

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.

The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you; you won't stand up for other people.

Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And see, in truth, what they bring us.

We are taught that revenge is strong and compassion is weak. We are taught that power is more important than love.

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.