Quotes About Empathy

God's love enables us to serve those who mistreat us. — Verda J. Glick

Angry people need someone who cares enough to listen long enough to understand the pain. They need someone who listens carefully enough to identify with the person's anger, wisely enough to express understanding, and courageously enough to respond with a gentle, truthful answer—an answer that seeks resolution of the issue that gave rise to the anger.

Encouragement requires empathy and seeing the world from your spouse's perspective. We must first learn what is important to our spouse.

We must be willing to learn our spouse's primary love language if we are to be effective communicators of love.

Love doesn't keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn't bring up past failures.

When I have been wronged by my spouse and she has painfully confessed it and requested forgiveness, I have the option of justice or forgiveness. If I choose justice and seek to pay her back or make her pay for her wrongdoing, I am making myself the judge and she the felon.

Steven Covey, author of the bestselling The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, feels so strongly about people's need for appreciation that he states: "Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival, to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated."1

Strew nuggets of affirmation and caring along your path today; you never know whose day you'll brighten. — Mary Kay Moody

It's too easy to complain. A heart of love finds the good, and, if necessary, helps change the bad things. — Zach Davidson —

Remember love, not hate, equals peace.

When the Lord saw her, his heart overflowed with compassion. "Don't cry!" he said. —Luke 7:13

And why worry about a speck in your friend's eye when you have a log in your own? —Luke 6:41

Sincere rebuke is medication for a sick soul. — Steven Thompson —

Our words should always reflect the love we feel for others. — Jenni Davenport —

Why do we live but to serve, give, share, love, and comfort others? — Clay Taylor

Acting kindly means dying to our selfish desires so that the needs of others might be met. Self-denial goes against everything the evening news suggests about human nature. But when we live out God's kindness in ordinary ways, even moments of despair can become opportunities for hope. P

As sinners, we must be willing to associate with other sinners before we can show God's love to them. — Jessica Talbot

Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them. —Ephesians 4:29

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were confused and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. —Matthew 9:36

Only when we see others through God's eyes can we love them as He does. — Bobbie Roper —

I've seen too many people give up on love too fast. Walking away from relationships doesn't provide the hoped-for relief, bring solutions, or simplify life. Rather, it piles on more problems through the lingering resentment and finger-pointing.

Sometimes when we mine a person's life, we find a heart of gold beyond the crusty exterior. — Janet Graham —

Love prays for others—as long as the prayers are needed. — Jeanette Gardner Littleton

O perdão não é um sentimento; é um compromisso. É a opção de mostrar misericórdia, de não responder à ofensa daquele que ofendeu. O perdão é uma expressão de amor.