Quotes about Empathy

Women who are stunningly beautiful are women who have had their hearts enlarged by suffering.

What do you want me to pray for them? Show me what to pray.

You have been entrusted with the heart of another human being. Whatever else your life's great mission will entail, loving and defending this heart next to you is part of your great quest.

We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are. (HEBREWS 4:15)

Many relationships fail for the insistence of treating others as problems to be solved, rather than as hearts to be known and loved.

Do not diminish the wounds you have received because you have heard far worse stories than yours; minimizing the impact of a wound never heals it. Jesus cares about it all.

We forgive those who harmed us. And then, with an open heart, we simply as Jesus to heal us.

Make no room for offense.

I don't trust a man who hasn't suffered; I don't let a man get close to me who hasn't faced his wound.

You see, whenever we live in relationship, whenever we simply live in proximity to other people, sooner or later we will run up against their issues—the unhealed or unholy parts of their personalities. Just as they will run into ours. Living in community is like a pack of porcupines sharing the same den. We will get stuck.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.