Quotes About Empathy

Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus is for real. He does not give up on anyone, least of all on me.

The Son of God passed by the mansions and went down in a manger that He might sympathize with the lowly.

God let it be known that it is better to give than to receive, but a lot of people failed to get the message.

Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.

Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.

God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.

American values are not just about America, but they speak to the human dignity, the God-given spark that resides in each and every person across the world.

Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.

There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.

I think that's why we're always so fascinated with criminal stories because there but for the grace of God it could be us.

This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.

I think judgment is from within. It's not a God judging. Someone who is nasty - they're the one who has to sleep at night.

We don't want God to remember our sins, so there is something fundamentally wrong in our relentlessly trying to remember those of others.

What if God was one of us, just a slob like one of us?

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

…God, it's over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people's problems and get some of your own.

If we take good care of one another, God will take care of us.

It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.

To climb ever closer to God is not to move away from our troubled and troubling neighbors, but closer to them.

Quite honestly, there are days when I don't need a God who will deliver me from the pit, just a God who will get down in a pit with me.

The Elephant Man would never have gotten up and gone, 'Oh, God. Look at me hair today.'

I would live in a world of Christ-like humans, but not one full of Christians, may God forgive me.

When you judge others you reveal your inability to see them through God's eyes.

Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence.