Quotes about Empathy
The poorest people are the sweetest people.
— Denzel Washington
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
My faith tells me where to go and get started and what kind of sympathy to have for people once you get there.
— Conor Lamb
No one should have to go to school with a bulletproof backpack or be afraid to go to synagogue or church or a restaurant.
— Jacky Rosen
Oh, my goodness, when you're a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and - or Down's Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there's a bit of a shock you're going to have to go through, a bit of an adjustment curve.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
The intelligent man, who exploits available resources for knowledge of the needs and wants of his fellows, will be more inclined to adjust his conduct to their needs than those who are less intelligent.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Great achievement! I learn how to be tolerant when I become the victim of somebody else's spiritual pride [1928].
— Reinhold Niebuhr
comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable
— Reinhold Niebuhr
We need people, Juliet, to show us our selfishness, to extract the ugliness that reveals itself in our hearts.
— Rene Gutteridge
Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling a man with a broken leg to get up and run a race.
— Richard Baxter
The more they love each other, the more they participate in each other's griefs, and one or the other will be frequently under some sort of suffering.
— Richard Baxter
Thou has heard the words of Christ. . . . Dost thou weep, when I have thee, Poor soul, what aileth thee? Dost thou weep, when I have wept so much? Be of good cheer ; thy wounds are saving, and not deadly. It is I that have made them, who mean thee no hurt : though I let out thy blood, I will not let out thy life (628).
— Richard Baxter