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Quotes About Empathy

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.
~ John Amos Comenius
Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.
~ Thomas S. Monson
You don't need religion to have morals. If you can't decide right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.
~ Kane
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
~ Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal.
~ Connor Franta
Divided as we may be by religion, we are united by charity.
~ Rashi
If you want to know the religion of a man, do not look at how much he prays and fasts, rather, look at how he treats people.
~ Ja'far al-Sadiq
Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.
~ Nikolai Berdyaev
You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.
~ John C. Maxwell
Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility.
~ S. Parkes Cadman
"Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their crimes!
~ John William Fletcher
We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others
~ Harry Truman
If we meet somebody who has never made a mistake, lets help them start a religion. Until then, were just going to meet other humans and help to make each other better.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
~ Linus Pauling
There is no higher religion than human service.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.
~ Dorothee Solle
With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.
~ Charles Grodin
Suggesting I hate people with religion because I hate religion is like suggesting I hate people with cancer because I hate cancer.
~ Ricky Gervais
Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
~ Thomas Paine
Of one thing we can be certain: every person we see - no matter the race, religion, political beliefs, body type, or appearance - is family.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Humiliating people in the name of religion is the practice of someone deprived of the first fruit of religion, # humility .
~ Nouman Ali Khan
Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
~ Robert A. Heinlein