Quotes related to Romans 12:15
The cross is the assurance that effective prophetic criticism is done not by an outsider but always by one who must embrace the grief, enter into the death, and know the pain of the criticized one.
— Walter Brueggemann
to see what had happened. "Oh no," Elaine gasped. "It looks like a car hit someone's buggy! I hope no one is seriously hurt.
— Wanda Brunstetter
Compassion: she suffered with. Companion: she broke bread with. Conspiracy: she breathed with. Conscience: she knew with. And finally, consistent with this ethic of imitation.
— James Carroll
Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the counselor's mind is, "How can I pray for you?
— James MacDonald
Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most
— Aesop
I lost a good friend a few years ago, and it happened quite suddenly. Any event like that leaves you with questions. Would a phone call have made a difference? Did the person know that you were there for them?
— Richard Ashcroft
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,-all duties even.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You'll never get to a person's soul until you understand their hurts.
— Ravi Zacharias
But life's joys are only joys if they can be shared.
— Ravi Zacharias
Alison Carr on 'Homeland.' She was such great character to play, so clever and full of surprises. I was sad to see her go.
— Miranda Otto
God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.
— Jurgen Moltmann
Other men's crosses are not my crosses.
— John Donne