Quotes about Empathy

The things you do and say always tell you more about yourself than whoever you're speaking or responding to

For the believer, harsh, critical, impatient, and irritated responses to others are always connected to forgetting or denying who we are and what we have been given in Jesus.

Humility is the soil in which mercy for others grows.

You are most loving, patient, kind, and gracious when you are aware that there is no truth that you could give to another that you don't desperately need yourself.

It's pointless to blame someone for being themselves and looking to their own interests.

Love that cares, listens.

There is no love which does not become help.

No self-acceptance is possible if one is not accepted in a person-to-person relation.

The gratitude of those who receive help is first and always gratitude for love and only afterwards gratitude for help.

But if it is life alone that dies, love is born, which is the innermost part of the spirit. It is the most mature and most precious fruit of the life that sacrifices itself. Love breaks out of the prison of individualism and nationalist stupidity. Love goes to another person, even one with a different language or of a different race, and returns from him richer.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.