Quotes about Empathy
He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.
— Thomas Adams
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The person who truly understands love could love anyone.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
No man ought to despise or in any way injure another man without urgent cause: and, consequently, unless we have evident indications of a person's wickedness, we ought to deem him good, by interpreting for the best whatever is doubtful about him.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
On the contrary, The Philosopher says (Ethic. ix, 8): "Love for others comes of love for oneself.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
— Henry David Thoreau
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
— Charles Dickens
I grew up in a family of nine children, and I know there has to be a back and forth and a listening.
— Blase J. Cupich
Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
— Nikki Giovanni
If for no other reason, God sometimes allows us to suffer pain so that we can comfort others suffering in a like situation.
— Norman Geisler
Love never forces itself on another's will. So
— Norman Geisler