Quotes about Empathy
Love of Christ does not distract us from interest in others, but rather invites us to responsibility for them, to the exclusion of no one….
— Pope John Paul II
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
— Marianne Williamson
Love happens when people forgive.
— Karen Kingsbury
God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others.
— Paul David Tripp
To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.
— David Brainerd
A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
— Pope John Paul II
When you love till it hurts, there will be no hurt left, just love.
— Mother Teresa
Love is contagious. When I share love, it comes back to me multiplied. Love opens every door.
— Louise Hay
...what I can do is offer myself, wholehearted and present, to walk with the people I love through the fear and the mess. That's all any of us can do. That's what we're here for.
— Shauna Niequist
The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.
— Mahatma Gandhi