Quotes about Empathy

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.

Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only of these things. To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather than their faults. To see Christ in them!

The best things to do with the best things in life is to give them away.

Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.

There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.

Love your enemies." That is the hardest saying of all. Please, Father in heaven who made me, take away my heart of stone and give me a heart of flesh to love my enemy. It is a terrible thought — "we love God as much as the one we love the least.

Meditation on the bus. Rainy and cold. Thinking gloomily of the sins and shortcomings of others, it suddenly came to me to remember my own offenses, just as heinous as those of others. If I concern myself with my own sins and lament them, if I remember my own failures and lapses, I will not be resentful of others. This was most cheering and lifted the load of gloom from my mind. It makes one unhappy to judge people and happy to love them.

He did not begin by tearing down, or by painting so intense a picture of misery and injustice that you burned to change the world. Instead, he aroused in you a sense of your own capacities for work, for accomplishment. He made you feel that you and all men had great and generous hearts with which to love God. If you once recognized this fact in yourself you would expect and find it in others.

The true atheist is the one who denies God's image in the "least of these.

Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today.