Quotes about Empathy
The balancing act we parents attempt is convincing our children: 1. You are loved more than you can imagine. 2. The world does not revolve around you.
— John Eldredge
Pray for people who are in a better situation than you are, who are more gifted than you are, or who currently have wonderful circumstances coming their way. Rejoice with those who rejoice. Pray for someone else's promotion, someone else's pregnancy, someone else's healing. That crucifies envy.
— John Eldredge
Listen to your own heart and the hearts of the women you know. What is it that a woman wants? What does she dream of?
— John Eldredge
Women who are stunningly beautiful are women who have had their hearts enlarged by suffering.
— John Eldredge
What do you want me to pray for them? Show me what to pray.
— John Eldredge
You have been entrusted with the heart of another human being. Whatever else your life's great mission will entail, loving and defending this heart next to you is part of your great quest.
— John Eldredge
We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are. (HEBREWS 4:15)
— John Eldredge
Many relationships fail for the insistence of treating others as problems to be solved, rather than as hearts to be known and loved.
— John Eldredge
Do not diminish the wounds you have received because you have heard far worse stories than yours; minimizing the impact of a wound never heals it. Jesus cares about it all.
— John Eldredge
We forgive those who harmed us. And then, with an open heart, we simply as Jesus to heal us.
— John Eldredge
Make no room for offense.
— John Eldredge
I don't trust a man who hasn't suffered; I don't let a man get close to me who hasn't faced his wound.
— John Eldredge