Quotes About Empathy

Instead of educating the I.Q., we need to educate the H.Q., the heart quotient, the matters of truth, love, justice, and compassion. There are two ways to do this. One is through the read life experiences and the other is through literature. Literature has the power to take us outside ourselves and returns to ourselves a changed self.

Christ instructs us to love our enemies, which does not mean a submission to their hostile agendas or domination, but does mean treating them as human beings also created in the image of God and respecting their human rights as adversaries and even as prisoners.

As I have talked with black friends about this book, especially with black parents, the line that has elicited the most response is this one: "If white Christians acted more Christian than white, black parents would have less to fear for their children.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.

Who are you to judge the life i live i know i'm not perfect and i don't live to be. but before you start pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.

Until we bless those who have hurt us, we will not experience true emotional healing and freedom.

The ability to talk about sensitive areas of our lives with each other has greatly enhanced our marriage. We are able to relate to each other as best friends, to confess sin, or to reveal deep feelings without being accused or mistrusted.

If you have a naturally dominant personality, you must be careful. If your spouse feels as though he or she is being pressured to see and do things your way, they aren't going to be totally open and honest.

Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And after I've finished "shooting," my unharmed victims are still around for others to enjoy. I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

You" is emphatic. When the eye keeps steadfastly fastened on God's judgments upon a guilty world and upon His assured Promise of personal Salvation, then the heart is delivered from Earthly expectations and is, at the same time, prepared to suffer calamities in sympathy with national distress.)

Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good.

Fiction, when it's done right, does in the daylight what dreams do at night: we leave the confines of our own experiences and go to common ground, where for a time we are not alone Where we don't have to ask how it feels, because we feel it for ourselves." 

Fiction, when it's done right, does in the daylight what dreams do at night: we leave the confines of our own experiences and go to common ground, where for a time we are not alone.

I have a feeling you need a good, old fashioned, whine and jeeze party. Now, tell me everything.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.—Mark Twain

Sometimes when you're cruel to others, it's because you've gotten yourself into a situation you can't get out of.

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