Quotes about Empathy
Failure and suffering are the great equalizers and levelers among humans. Success is just the opposite. Communities and commitment can form around suffering much more than around how wonderful or superior we are.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that "us-and-them" seeing, and the dualistic thinking that results, is the foundation of almost all discontent and violence in the world.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Frankly, Jesus came to show us how to be human much more than how to be spiritual, and the process still seems to be in its early stages.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The significance of Jesus' wounded body is his deliberate and conscious holding of the pain of the world and refusing to send it elsewhere. The wounds were not necessary to convince God that we were loveable; the wounds are to convince us of the path and price of transformation. They are what will happen to you if you face and hold sin in compassion instead of projecting it in hatred.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The Church, as Jesus seems to be defining it, is the gathering of accepted brokenness. It's not the gathering of the saved.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
you are often most gifted to heal others precisely where you yourself were wounded, or wounded others.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Francis's starting place was human suffering instead of human sinfulness
— Fr. Richard Rohr
forgiveness always heals; it does not matter whether you are Hindu, Buddhist, Catholic or Jewish. Forgiveness is one of the patterns that is always true, it is part of The Story. There is no specifically Catholic way to feed the hungry or to steward the earth.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Do not get rid of your hurts until you have learned all that they have to teach you.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Holier-than-thou people usually end up holier than nobody.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
We mend and renew the world by strengthening inside ourselves what we seek outside ourselves, and not by demanding it of others or trying to force it on others.
— Fr. Richard Rohr