Quotes about Empathy

Anger takes everything personally, as if everything is an intentional act to make your life miserable.

When the only one who has a right to be angry chooses love and service, when He considers the interests of others more important than His own and chooses humility—He changes everything (p. 55).

What is the way out of shame? It is the way of humility, not humiliation. It is the way of being known, not exposed.

In our attempts to help, we can overinterpret suffering.

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."