Quotes about Empathy
The essence of love is kindness.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Find someone worse off than you and help them. It will put your life in perspective.
— Tony Robbins
Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others.
— Mother Teresa
The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually.
— E Stanley Jones
Nothing is ever really yours until you share it.
— E Stanley Jones
Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.
— Earl Nightingale
In prayer, we bring to Jesus those anxieties and insecurities that would otherwise fuel our outrage. The discipline of prayer prevents us from venting, flaming, or savaging others, either in person or online. I've never seen people go after someone they're praying for.
— Ed Stetzer
it's not enough for Christians merely to recognize that the world isn't what it ought to be and that people are suffering in ways they shouldn't have to suffer." Instead, our "sorrow and indignation" should prompt us to act in ways that "subvert" that brokenness.
— Ed Stetzer
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.
— Ed Stetzer
The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.
— Edith Wharton
Sisters are like fat thighs: they stick together.
— Anonymous
A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life's worthwhile.
— Anonymous