Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others.

Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.

In scripture God brings the animals to the human for naming. In that simple act the human is brought to recognize the particular personality and worth of each living creature. Too bad we forget so often.

prayer can be an easy substitute for real spirituality. It would be impossible to have spirituality without prayer, of course, but it is certainly possible to pray without having a spirituality at all. How do you know? 'Am I becoming kinder?' is a good place to start.

The human race sees with one eye, the male eye; hears with one ear, the male ear; and thinks with one half the human mind, the male mind. And the decisions we are making show we are not bringing to the agendas, and the questions and the problems of the world, all the resources of the world to solve them.

Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.

Everything we do seeds the future. No action is an empty one.