Quotes About Empathy

Kindness is our religion.

To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.

All the creatures are pleased by loving words; and therefore we should address words that are pleasing to all, for there is no lack of sweet words.

Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy.

People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.

Good deeds, create good will, which opens the heart to the good news.

If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

Good heart is the best religion; its light is the most powerful light.

I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow's tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan's mouth.

When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

Imagine ... Imagine no religion.

I wasn't raised with a specific religion. I wasn't raised to judge people in any way.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

There is a world of practical religion in simply being considerate of others.

There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion.

And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man.

When love overflows and is expressed through every word and deed, we call it compassion. That is the goal of religion.

There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.

I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest.

I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.

I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.

One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down.