Quotes About Empathy

I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.

You don't have to change to love me; loving me will change you.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

When we sin, we do not infuriate God, our Lover. We only hurt Him. We grieve Him!

Edward Markquart, a brilliant homoletician, wrote: "People want their preachers to be authentic human beings . . . who experience the same feelings and struggles as the laity, who do not hide behind the role of reverend so and so.

CHRIST KNEW IT WAS IMPORTANT TO SERVE, EVEN IF DOING SO INTERRUPTED HIS PERSONAL AGENDA.

Long ago I learned that more than half of any pastor's congregation come to church broken and in the grip of some life issue that is eating at their wellbeing.

Do you think the people you preach to have a feeling of love?" the young man asked. "Well, I'm not talking about weak love," King explained. "I'm talking about love with justice. Weak love can be sentimental and empty. I'm talking about the love that is strong, so that you love your fellow men enough to lead them to justice.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world are the moments you share with someone when you're uncool.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is the moments we share with one another when we're uncool.

I think the worst part is that when you know you dream another person's dream, you can never truly feel at peace. Never truly trust yourself. If you carry around somebody else's nightmare, who knows what else your insides might hide or when it might come out?

to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.

When someone refuses to speak, those around him are left to imagine what his thoughts might be, and all too often the possibilities conjured up are not pleasant ones...Sometimes, no matter how much you wish to proclaim them, it is better to keep your thoughts to yourself. Speaking out when someone else is silent puts the speaker at a disadvantage.

To truly love takes seeing truly.

Our eyes see different things, I thought. They always have. Even when we're looking in the same direction, standing side by side.

I only hope you and your pride don't catch cold together.

There was no sense in adding to her distress by not taking care of the things she valued.

It made me angry that people could simply kill other people, take what they wanted, and ignore the cries of the sick and hungry. The world wasn't like that— or it shouldn't be like that—even though I hadn't seen enough of the world to know what it was really like.

Amina has boundless empathy for everyone but her husband, it seems. How is it that disappointment arrives as soon as what you have desired for so long steps over the threshold? It's like finding the end of your wedding train dragging behind in the mud.

Friendships were tested in times of crisis, and she didn't want to be one of those people who out of exaggerated caution and perhaps even cowardice avoided friends who were having a hard time.

For who can say which is the more empowered, them or us, if we can speak to each other successfully across the chasm of time and difference? Do we ourselves not become wiser and stronger every time we grasp the perspective of people whom we once dismissed?

Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.

We do not thieve the peckers of men who've spurned us and squirrel them away in glass jars.

You ain't never gonna feel nothin' other people ain't been through a million times before.