Quotes about Empathy

Wealth is not to feed our egos, but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love.

And now He calls us to live and to walk in love. He demands that though a man hate you, still you love him. True love cannot be conquered by anything.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

In a man's letters his soul lies naked.

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

How small of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or kings can cuse or cure!

He is a good man, who grieves rather for him that injures him, than for his own suffering; who prays for him, that wrongs him, forgiving all his faults; who sooner shews mercy than anger; who offers violence to his appetite, in all things endeavouring to subdue the flesh to the spirit. This is an excellent abbreviature of the whole duty of a christian.Taylor'sGuide to devotion.   

There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. Mahatma Gandhi I

Christ has no body now but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which He looks Compassion on this world, Yours are the feet with which He walks to do good, Yours are the hands, with which He blesses all the world.

One of the most important roles the family plays is as the first place where young people grow accustomed to considering the needs of other individuals and the community ahead of themselves.