Quotes About Empathy

Through years of maturing, I've learned that it's not our job to force our beliefs down others' throats until they echo back what we want to hear. No, our job is to challenge their categories by doing the same things Jesus did: loving them, challenging them, accepting them, and forgiving them.

Al elegir a sus amigos, Jesús se rodeaba de los solitarios, los quebrantados, los ignorados por la sociedad. Dios te está llamando a formar parte de su iglesia, a ser su iglesia. Si no te consideras lo suficiente bueno, eres exactamente la persona que él está buscando.

Make sure that the person you're in the room with is the most important person in the world when you're together.

Pause for a moment and prayerfully consider your response: What breaks your heart?

When he chose friends, Jesus surrounded himself with the lonely, the broken, and the overlooked. God is calling you to be a part of his church, to be his church. If you don't feel like you're good enough, then you're exactly who he's looking for.

When I ask God to change my actions, that honesty about my own inconsistent behaviors forces me not to be so hard on other believers. Humble acknowledgment of the plank in my own eye gives me more patience with the specks in everyone else's (see Matthew 7:1-5). Instead of pointing the finger at others, let's allow God to examine us.

Weird people love well.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

We find our lives when we give them away.

Rather than being concerned only with my hopes, my dreams, my concerns, I was called to shepherd others. To love them, hurt with them, pour into them.

I looked at her, looking being one of my better law-enforcement techniques.

You do have one prejudice though. I looked back at her again from under the brim of my hat. "You don't care about the living as much as you do the dead.

I sometimes think that it's not our enemies that we resent in life, but rather friends we have who stood quietly by and did nothing.

I have found in most relationships with women it is best to remember their birthdays but forget their age.

In my life, I have been kicked by horses and bitten by them. I've been stepped on, crushed against gates, and thrown to the ground, but I have also been nuzzled, rubbed against, carried by, nickered at, and warmed by the great beasts. I thought of all the horses I'd known and couldn't think of a bad one.

There wasn't anything more to say, so I didn't. That's the thing about comforting—it's almost more important to know when not to talk.

Good friends are the ones who can remain close without losing their ability to

My eyes closed again for what I thought was only a moment and when I opened them she was gone and a different head, panting with a different sort of breath and with a worried look on his long face, was hanging over me. Unsure, he slathered a lick on the side of my head with a tongue as wide as a paperback, correct in the belief that a good kiss made everything better—well, almost everything.

I glanced at the posture. "Look, I know you think you've got the original franchise on grief, but there's a lot of it flying around these days and most of us just suck it up and do what we can to help each other, you know?

that the brutes of the field don't feel pain like humans. That that's the price we pay for thinking.

How could she let herself get involved in an abusive relationship like that?" "You mean the daughter you raised?" I didn't say anything. "It can happen to anyone, that's the point.

WHEN THE POWER OF LOVE OVERCOMES THE LOVE OF POWER, THE WORLD SHALL KNOW PEACE.

Good friends are the ones who can remain close without losing their ability to surprise.

It was my father who taught me to talk to animals.He said they understand a hell of a lot more than we think they do. I remember him speaking to the horses he shod in a low and reassuring voice, explaining what he was doing to them; he said it was one of the things we owed them for their absolute, unreserved, unswerving loyalty. He said the outside of a horse is always good for the inside of a man.