Quotes about Empathy
For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.
— Deuteronomy 15:11
And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed.
— Deuteronomy 15:13
And you shall do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.
— Deuteronomy 22:3
If you see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up.
— Deuteronomy 22:4
Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
— Deuteronomy 24:17
Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.
— Deuteronomy 24:22
And she said, “He gave me these six measures of barley, for he said, ‘Do not go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”
— Ruth 3:17
She fell at his feet and said, “My lord, may the blame be on me alone, but please let your servant speak to you; hear the words of your servant.
— 1 Samuel 25:24
Now his men found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave the man water to drink and food to eat—
— 1 Samuel 30:11
but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter to him.
— 2 Samuel 12:3
Now a traveler came to the rich man, who refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for his guest.”
— 2 Samuel 12:4
The elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.
— 2 Samuel 12:17