The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do.

I suspect that 'Kindness and Cruelty' and 'Mercy and Justice' all have secret affairs, as though they rendezvous only within certain sophisticated souls: those who hate being offensive, but love telling the truth.

Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias.

For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it flies in with an attempt to share one's joy with others who do not have it.