Quotes about Empathy

Tolerance is not indifference, but a generous regard and even provision for those who differ from us on points we deeply care about.

And we and the public are constantly confronted with professing Christians who, to say the least, do not love one another, but may clearly hate and despise or be indifferent to those around them.

Most families would be healthier and happier if their members treated one another with the respect they would give to a perfect stranger. C. S. Lewis's discussion of storage, familial love, is endlessly instructive on this point and is required reading for all who intend to have a decent family life. He notes that he has been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parent.

To be simple, humble, and thoughtful as we listen to others and help them come to faith in the One who has given us life.

There is a distinctive emphasis by Jesus on loving your neighbor, your "near dweller," not upon loving "humanity" or "everyone."19 What this means is that our duty and our virtue is to love those with whom we are in effectual contact—those we can really do something about.

The other idea is, "I love you, and I will serve you by doing what is good for you, whether you want it or not.

We forgive someone of a wrong they have done us when we decide that we will not make them suffer for it in any way.

As you engage with others, ask Jesus to bless them. You can consciously will the peace, joy, and confidence that you are experiencing to pass from you, like "living waters," to those with whom you are interacting.

Spread love wherever you go. Let no one come to you without leaving happier.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you… If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier.