Quotes about Empathy
I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.
— John Perkins
An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load.
— John Piper
Make the mule of your tongue serve the mercy of your heart.
— John Piper
And I would just plead in passing—children, young people, and adults—see people with disabilities. And I don't mean see them like the priest and the Levite on the Jericho Road, passing by on the other side. This is our natural reflex—see and avoid. But we are not natural people. We are followers of Jesus. We have the Spirit of Jesus in our hearts. We have been seen and touched in all our brokenness by an attentive, merciful Savior.
— John Piper
We humans have never had the resources in ourselves to love each other well across ethnic lines. There is too much selfishness in all of us.
— John Piper
I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord GOD" (Ezekiel 18:32).
— John Piper
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.
— John Quincy Adams
We are cruel enough without meaning to be.
— John Updike
We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.
— John Wesley
One great reason why the rich in general have so little sympathy for the poor is because they so seldom visit them. Hence it is that one part of the world does not know what the other suffers. Many of them do not know, because they do not care to know: they keep out of the way of knowing it — and then plead their voluntary ignorance as an excuse for their hardness of heart.
— John Wesley
Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may.
— John Wesley
Those without enough love experience rage, but love drives rage away.
— John Wesley