Quotes about Empathy
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Yet again in writing to a friend of John Smith he says, "I have often seen him come downstairs in the morning after several hours in prayer, his eyes swollen with weeping. He would soon introduce the subject of his anxiety by saying, 'I am a brokenhearted man; yes, indeed, I am an unhappy man, not for myself but on account of others. God has given me such a sight of the value of precious souls that I cannot live if souls are not saved. Oh give me souls, or else I die!
— Leonard Ravenhill
Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults
— Les Brown