Quotes about Empathy

Whatever you want more of, give it away.

Compassion is the key no matter what the line of work you are in.

If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.

God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet. The trouble with so many of us is that we have hard hearts and soft feet.

If they could not understand the words about Jesus then we Christians should show them what He was like by the way we lived. I remembered He had said, 'If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.' So this was the beginning of what I called 'walking the extra mile'. There seemed to be a lot of Christians who did not mind walking one, not many who could be bothered to walk two, and no one who wanted to walk three. Those in need that I met seemed to need a marathon.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

Only as men succeed in seeing no evil in others will they become free from sin, and sorrow, and suffering.

Only as men succeed in seeing no evil in others will they become free from sin, and sorrow, and suffering.

Man is shut out from Heaven and Peace and Truth only in so far as he shuts out others from his sympathy. Where his sympathy ends his darkness and torment and turmoils begin.

A man's sympathy extends just so far as his wisdom reaches, and no further; and a man only grows wiser as he grows tenderer and more compassionate. To narrow one's sympathy is to narrow one's heart, and so to darken and embitter one's life.

When a man is rescued from selfish desire his mind is unencumbered, and he is free to work for humanity.

To sympathise with another is to receive his being into our own, to become one with him, for unselfish love indissolubly unites, and he whose sympathy reaches out to and embraces all humankind and all living creatures has realised his identity and oneness with all, and comprehends the universal Love and Law and Wisdom.