Quotes About Empathy

Bettering the lives of others is the role of a person with a servant's heart.

A tearless heart is a callous heart.

It is always wrong to enrich yourself at the expense of others.

Jesus showed compassion for the hurting and the lost, and so should you.

He asks, in a softer voice, Does your arm still hurt? You touch it with your hand. The big ache is gone, leaving only the little, underneath ache that will gather and swell against the bone. The blood leaks out of the vein where he grabbed you. But you say, It's better now.

All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

I finally understood that death and numbers don't cohere. Everyone is 'one.' An accident report might say that nine died, four of them in their teens, but each death was 'one.' Each of six million Jews was 'one.' With death it is a series of 'ones.

Cliff, a cell phone isn't a toy. It's a very lucky technical miracle for all of us. It's a prime weapon against our essential loneliness. I can't say I've ever felt that lonely.

language was a convenience of the heart, not something to bludgeon people with.

I just now know that you can only meet a man at the level of his intentions.

It was usually not the big things that destroyed marriages but the day-to-day treating each other poorly.

I found a stock tank and let the horse drink, then tethered it and lifted the dog over the edge and watched it swim in happy circles. I got pretty wet lifting the dog out of the tank but didn't care -- there is something about doing a favor for a dog that calms you down.

A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them.

I like a man who wears his soul on his face.

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.

Wealthy Christians talk about the poor but have no friends who are poor. So they merely speculate on the reasons for their condition, often placing the blame on the poor themselves.

The religious conviction that challenges us to see the image of God in every person is an absolute barrier to the practice of torture.

I have always learned the most about the world by going to places I was never supposed to be and being with people I was never supposed to meet.

If white Christians acted more Christian than white, black parents would have less to fear for their children.

Peace, Love, and Happiness. --- Jimi Hendrix ---

When The Power Of Love Overcomes The Love Of Power,,World Will Know Peace.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace.

Sticks and stones can't break my soul But words, they seem to sometimes harm me— Maybe it's because I'm forever hungry— ...for the truth of love.