Quotes about Empathy

The way we are, we are members of each other. All of us. Everything. The difference ain't in who is a member and who is not, but in who knows it and who don't.

She cried easily. Evidence that she felt much, and most often for other people. A rare and beauty filled gift.

As strange as it sounds, broken people are fixed by other broken people. It's God's economy.

All hearts have but one request. One simple, unspoken, undeniable need. One undeniable fear. "To be known.

Love fills the empty places and flows from what was once the epicenter of the wound. And it's the flowing that washes out the residue of the pain and makes us whole again. That's the crazy miracle that is love. The more you pour out, the more you have to pour.

A song is a light we shine on others, not a light we shine on us.

We stood in silence, and yet I heard a familiar voice saying, Listen here, child, that's God's little girl, baggage and all, so don't go judging the cover. He doesn't care what she looks like. He'll take her and us any way he can get us. Just like the woman at the well. Best you switch lenses and start seeing her that way too.

I stood and pulled her up on two feet. "That depends." "On what?" "Whether you're looking at this through my eyes or yours.

All hearts have but one request. One simple, unspoken, undeniable need... To be known.

In my experience, it's those words on the tip of the tongue that we most need to hear. They are the key. The thing that's missing. But you can't pull them out. They have to be offered. Freely. And they won't be offered until the owner trusts you with them. And to do that means they've got to break through a world of hurt and pain just to get them out of their mouth. I caught my reflection in the mirror.

Sometimes, given their depth, we become little more than the sum of our wounds, and it takes someone else to see what we can be instead of what we are.

Indifference is the curse of this age. We need to hear that. Indifference is evil, and it could not be further from the heart of God.