Quotes About Empathy

I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the modern world, with all their cries of anger, pain and despair.

When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

Mercy is "stronger and more God-like than vengeance".

Forgiving other people who have wronged us or hurt us or embarrassed us is not easy. In fact, sometimes it seems impossible. But that is what God did for us and what He asks us to do for others.

Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don't believe in, we quickly discover that I don't believe in that god, either.

The heart with compassion is the temple of God.

Nothing causes us to so nearly resemble God as the forgiveness of injuries.

See God in everyone. It is deception to teach by individual differences and karma.

To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up.

There are people who can't stand me, they say, 'God, he makes me sick', or, 'He's creepy', but it doesn't affect me too badly.

I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.

It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

If Jesus forgave those who nailed Him to the cross, and if God forgives you and me, how can you withhold your forgiveness from someone else?

Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart.

Don't judge other people. For example, if you want God's anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

You can give of your talent, you can give of your possessions, or you can give of yourself. For God's sake, give something.

God is disappointed when we don't realize that others are trying too.

Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.

Think of God not as a word, or a stranger, or as someone on high, waiting to judge and punish you. Think of Him as you would want to be thought of if you were God.

Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.