Quotes about Empathy
I have forgiven those who were persecuting me.
— Roy Bennett
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
— Albert Schweitzer
When there are legitimate concerns and frustrations it is never cool to marginalise and ridicule the people who have those concerns.
— James Cleverly
If you love me as you claim to, then you love her as well. She's part of me. Do you understand? She's part of my flesh and my life. When you say things against her, you say them against me. When you cut her, you cut me. Do you understand?
— Francine Rivers
All the way back, she had imagined him gloating and taunting, rubbing her face in her own broken pride. Instead, he knelt before her and washed her dirty, blistered feet. Throat burning, she looked down at his dark head and struggled with the feelings rising in her. She waited for them to die away, but they wouldn't.
— Francine Rivers
Tell me how on God's green earth we can dare offer salvation to a dying world when we're so busy shooting our own wounded.
— Francine Rivers
Sooner or later you'll learn there are people in the world who don't want to use you, Now, buck up your courage and go back in there and get to know a few.
— Francine Rivers
Hatred is the enemy, Hadassah. Not the people.
— Francine Rivers
It's not easy for me either, but if we allow anger to reside in us, we're more guilty than they are because we know the better way.
— Francine Rivers
So whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them. JESUS, MATTHEW 7 : 12
— Francine Rivers
Silence did not always mean indifference.
— Francine Rivers
Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind let each of you regard one another as more important than himself. PHILIPPIANS 2 : 3
— Francine Rivers