Quotes about Empathy

Imagine how aloneness could gradually be banished.

Do not end the conversation without an offer to pray. Ask what he needs prayer for and either pray right then or pray later and then follow up the next time you see him.

If you know you have been forgiven, you will forgive and reconcile with others.

You can't have a deeper relationship if you won't allow yourself to be known.

Once we pray with or for someone, we are in the ongoing story of his life, and it is an honor to be there.

Who in your life is one step ahead of you in knowing people? What does that person do?

We don't aim to draw out problems so that we can be helpers. We are simply interested in knowing another person, which is a basic feature of everyday love.

In an African hospital, a pastor who had just witnessed another death was approached by a poor, elderly woman. "You know," she said, taking my [the pastor's] arm, "through many losses of family and friends and through much sorrow, the Lord has taught me one thing. Jesus Christ did not come to take away our pain and suffering, but to share in it."

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.