Quotes About Empathy

If you want to appeal to the masses, make sure you appeal to the one. If you try to write with everybody in mind, you'll appeal to no one because everyone will think your book is for someone else.

The challenge is that if it's not good enough for the future kingdom of God, it's not good enough for the present. So when we see someone sick, we pray that God would heal them; when we see someone outside the kingdom, we invite them in; when we see someone in pain, we do all that we can to wipe the tears from their eyes.

When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close.

I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.

Sometimes it's easy to walk by because we know we can't change someone's whole life in a single afternoon. But what we fail to realize it that simple kindness can go a long way toward encouraging someone who is stuck in a desolate place.

You'll never scare anyone into heaven... Telling someone who is suffering deeply that he's going to suffer more is probably a waste of breath. Its like warning someone who is already starving that they're about to get really hungry. But tell him of the restaurant that serves heaping meals to all who come no matter where they're from or what they look like & he's more likely to listen.

Remember that the poor are people with names," writes Bryant Myers, author of Walking with the Poor. "[They are] people with whom and among whom God has been working before we even knew they were there.

Something critical is missing in places that care for broken and needy people if the only people there are also broken and needy.

Werent those well-intentioned speakers condemning the broken for being broken?

The Bible says that we must reach out to those in need," James replied. "Jesus loves us, so we get to love you. It's a privilege.

Love is dialougue, not monolougue

My goal in life is to make everyone else happy and when I'm happy I try to make them believe they're the cause of it

Peace is understanding, not quiet

To struggle against one's own flaws requires constant vigilance, but when you struggle against other people's flaws, you have to move more carefully and slowly.

But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.

Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.

We practically always excuse things when we understand them

Sometimes ... when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face. (Following summit meeting with Ronald Reagan)

With human beings the urge to make peace takes some time to germinate, while Homo Sapiens is always ready to hate.

if one is to confer successfully with foreigners, it is essential to know their ways of thinking and be able to put oneself in their place.

for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.

We are not born knowing how to understand and express what is inside our souls. That kind of knowing ourselves requires contemplation and reflection. We have to learn to notice and be aware of our internal experiences, to search our hearts and find words for what is inside us. Being fully known and understood requires that we say aloud to someone else what is going on within our souls.