Quotes about Empathy
The question of bread for myself is a material question; but the question of bread for my neighbour, for everybody, is a spiritual and a religious question.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
Loving people is the highest level of spiritual warfare that we could ever do
— Joyce Meyer
It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.
— Wayne Dyer
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
— Barbara Kingsolver
If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve.
— Deepak Chopra
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
— Dag Hammarskjold
If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways.
— Thomas a Kempis
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
— Albert Schweitzer
When a man gets up so high (spiritual mountaintop) that he cannot reach down and save poor sinners, there is something wrong.
— DL Moody
Every relationship is a gift exchange.
— Marianne Williamson
Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.
— St. Augustine
On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.
— Mother Teresa