Quotes about Empathy
There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.
— George Eliot
Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.
— Jim Rohn
Let us be on the side of those who sit in jails and are sentenced to death for their faith. Let us pray for them and help them.
— Richard Wurmbrand
We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.
— Thomas Merton
Humility - the discipline of putting others ahead of self, the choice to value others above self - is, at its core, a matter of faith.
— Charles Swindoll
It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person's good.
— Pope John Paul II
The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.
— Brennan Manning
My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
— CS Lewis
The problem of suffering is not about something but about someone.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.
— Steven Furtick
When you judge another person you do not define them. You merely define yourself as someone who needs to judge.
— Wayne Dyer