Quotes about Empathy

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we're all the same.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.

The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

At the final day, the Savior will not ask about the nature of our callings. He will not inquire about our material possessions or fame. He will ask if we ministered to the sick, gave food and drink to the hungry, visited those in prison, or gave succor to the weak.

I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it - there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

All of us have to be committed to a life beyond our own aspirations.

That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner.

The only way you change is you have to at least be communicating.