Quotes about Empathy
There is a form of communication that transcends the power of words.
— Joseph Wirthlin
You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.
— Napoleon Hill
God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we.
— Timothy Keller
All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.
— DA Carson
When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.
— Philip Yancey
When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.
— Leonard Ravenhill
May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.
— Mother Teresa
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
— JC Ryle
Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.
— FF Bruce
It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.
— CS Lewis