Quotes About Empathy

Even guilty people deserve to be treated as those made in the image of God.

Grace is not blind. It sees the hurt full well. But chooses to see God's forgiveness even more.

God understands how you feel and has faced what you face.

God knows what it's like to be a human. When I talk to him about deadlines or long lines or tough times, he understands. He's been there. He's been here.

Being a down-to-earth type of individual, I feel like I can connect with people on a different level, versus the GOD-like pedestal that people tend to put us on.

If we were able to see God's image in our neighbor, do you think weapons and generals would be needed?

Our God does not indulge us, but He is merciful toward our weaknesses as He strives to tutor us.

If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.

Beware of making a woman cry. God is counting her tears.

Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed them.

It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.

Be missionaries of God's tenderness!

If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.

We must be instruments of God's compassion to those who are suffering.

God, America is a country predicated on listening to everybody. When did we stop listening to one another?

No one laughs at God in a hospital.

God knows what it's like to lose a son.

God's mercy to us is the motivation for showing mercy to others. Remember, you will never be asked to forgive someone else more than God has forgiven you.

What we need to do from God's perspective is that we need to reach out and understand each other.

As the perfect parent, God suffers emotional pain when his creatures, created in his own image and likeness, rebel against him and do evil instead of good.

I have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God.

That's why you and I had friction? God, I always thought it was 'cause, 'cause I fooled around with your daughter freshman year.

I've changed after 9/11. My friends are still my friends.Bill Maher is my friend. I don't agree with a lot of what he says. And there are times I think, "Oh, my God. How could he say that."

I say somewhat facetiously, "I'm so glad I'm not God." Can you imagine being God and looking at Syria and saying: "These are my children. Look at what they're doing to each other."