Quotes about Empathy

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. -Rick Warren

Focus on their feelings, not the facts. Begin with sympathy, not solutions.

The Bible says, "You must make allowance for each other's faults and forgive the person who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others."14

Because we're sinners, we hurt each other, sometimes intentionally and sometimes unintentionally. But

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it's thinking of yourself less.

True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger on his own terms, and asserts that it can be offered only by those who 'have found the center of their lives in their own hearts'.

The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

Lord, as You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.

A woman whose heart is not touched by the sickness of sorrow and whose hands do not go out in relief where it is in her power to help, lacks one of the elements which make the glory of womanhood.

We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All those feelings charge up in you and you feel for the story.

The love of Jesus Christ covers your sins, and it also gives you the power to let other people off the hook. You've been forgiven, and you can forgive others.