Quotes About Empathy

If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we should still need tanks and generals?

I have been blessed by God. And if I'm blessed, there is one reason and one reason only, and that is to help others.

The quality of mercy is not strained

Don't boast about your hardheartedness or refusal to shed tears. Instead, pray that God will give you a tender heart which will sympathize with others.

Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.

When I hear real faithful people - whether it's a real Christian, or a real Buddhist, or a real Muslim - I hear them use the language I use for a friend. So my metaphor for God is friend.

Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good!

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.

It's not possible to be close to God without thinking about the lost. They never leave His mind.

Always try to see yourself through God's eyes.

Whose hands are God's hands, but our hands?

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

If we are in a supermarket when someone drops a bag of groceries on the floor and we don't help that person pick things up, what difference does it make how deeply we know we're a being of God?.

God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.

Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.

... God gave you just one mouth but He gave you two ears, so you should listen twice as much as you speak

At times we can be self-absorbed. Lord, help us to open our hearts to others and to serve those who are most vulnerable.

I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

Extend your mercy towards others, so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping. For what hope is there for us if God should withdraw His Mercy from us?

Go to the poor there you will find God.

Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

If God's people are to be living examples of one thing, that thing ought to be - it must be - compassion.