worldwide empathy Quotes

Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity.

The goal of 'The Purpose Driven Life' is to help people develop a heart for the world.

If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own.

Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.

We all have families who are longing for peace in the world and an end to the suffering caused by poverty, disease, and hunger. Untold numbers of our friends, our neighbors, our parents, and our children, are hoping that there is more understanding, more generosity, more genuine friendship, and more caring among people of all faiths and cultures.

There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but they have feelings. They can hurt.

What the world needs is not 'a little bit of love', but a surgical operation.

The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.