Quotes about Empathy
Did people always have to wait for pestilence or war or tragedy to be shocked into forgetting about themselves?
— Catherine Marshall
There's fire in you, Julie. I can see you out there in the street, carrying a banner for all the underprivileged people of the world.
— Catherine Marshall
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.
— George Eliot
As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.
— Billy Graham
Sometimes in a huddle I don't say anything, the guys will run the huddle. But I try to be an encourager in huddles, especially when I see a guy down or the team is not at the level where they should be mentally.
— Monty Williams
Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.
— Dorothy Day
The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
— Malcolm X
A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.
— Amos Oz
We'd all like to increase pleasure and minimize pain, but the truth is, suffering, even collective suffering that we're going through, is often the earmark that some real change is happening.
— Pete Holmes
We do not need answers or formulas to minister in crisis.
— John Ortberg
It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like to be with people.
— John Piper
In this world, few people look with the eyes of compassion, and so we are cruel and merciless toward each other. The weak are always oppressed by the strong.
— Thich Nhat Hanh