Quotes about Empathy

When you feel this burden, you might be frustrated, wondering why no one else cares as much as you do. The reason why you care and others don't could be because God has aimed it directly at you.

She asked God to use this experience to help my heart break forever for those who don't know Christ.

It's easy to impress people with our strengths, but real connections are forged through our shared weaknesses.

When dealing with overly critical people, try to see past the arrows to the struggles that launched them.

On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfaction.

Through years of maturing, I've learned that it's not our job to force our beliefs down others' throats until they echo back what we want to hear. No, our job is to challenge their categories by doing the same things Jesus did: loving them, challenging them, accepting them, and forgiving them.

Make sure that the person you're in the room with is the most important person in the world when you're together.

Pause for a moment and prayerfully consider your response: What breaks your heart?

When he chose friends, Jesus surrounded himself with the lonely, the broken, and the overlooked. God is calling you to be a part of his church, to be his church. If you don't feel like you're good enough, then you're exactly who he's looking for.

When I ask God to change my actions, that honesty about my own inconsistent behaviors forces me not to be so hard on other believers. Humble acknowledgment of the plank in my own eye gives me more patience with the specks in everyone else's (see Matthew 7:1-5). Instead of pointing the finger at others, let's allow God to examine us.

We find our lives when we give them away.

Rather than being concerned only with my hopes, my dreams, my concerns, I was called to shepherd others. To love them, hurt with them, pour into them.