Erwin McManus Quotes

People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

In being aware of others' hunger, we contribute to a more empathic world.

I love people, me, I believe in people. I love people too much.

There is so much in the world to care about.

Why don't we bring everyone up to be caring and compassionate, to believe that we are connected with everyone and everything around us?

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.

What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.

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

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.

I think the greatest thing that we can do is take care of each other.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

Are we truly being our sisters' keepers? Initially, that dog-eat-dog mentality within us may bark and say that we aren't responsible for other people, but if that was truly the case, then why are we even here? We have so much to offer and give to this world.

Helping someone is what life is all about.

My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

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

I would like to be remembered as somebody who cared a great deal about people.

Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.