Quotes about Empathy
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.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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.
— JD Greear
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.
— J.R. Miller
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.
— Danny Boyle
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.
— Rick Warren
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
You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works.
— Pope Francis
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