Quotes about Empathy

A person is merciful when he feels the sorrow and misery of another as if it were his own.

His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there is more to human deeds than the doers are aware. He identified every act of kindness as an expression of sympathy with Himself. All kindnesses are either done explicitly or implicitly in His name, or they are refused explicitly or implicitly in His name.

Evil is revealed when there is seen what it does to one who is loved.

The depth of a priest's compassion is the measure of his apostolic success.

We suffer from hunger of the spirit while much of the world is suffering from hunger of the body.

Always touched with sympathy for human infirmities, we bear the burden of nations in our hearts.

If we start (as we must) at the bottom of the ladder, having compassion on all men, nothing that happens to others is foreign to us. Their grief is our grief, their poverty our poverty.

Some faces are never so gay as when regaling a scandal, which the generous heart would cover and the devout heart pray over.

Blessed also are the poor in spirit socially.

One who cares for another assumes the weight of the other's condition on his own heart and bears it in love.

The greatest inhumanity that can be ascribed to men is having an opportunity for doing good to others and doing nothing. The serious sin is not always one of commission, but omission.

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.