Quotes about Empathy

To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.

Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in others. Grace is a gift of the humble to the humiliated. Grace acknowledges the ugliness of sin by choosing to see beyond it. Grace accepts a person as someone worthy of kindness despite whatever grime or hard-shell casing keeps him or her separated from the rest of the world. Grace is a gift of tender mercy when it makes the least sense.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not it takes a very strong person to forgive.

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

If someone must be hurt, if it ever becomes necessary to bear pains, weather strong winds, or withstand trials or opposition, let it be adults and not children.

God lets you go through challenges to give you credibility in a certain area and the ability to help someone else out of a situation that you once were in.

first things that a hurting person needs to do is break the habit of using other people as a narcotic to numb the dull aching of an inner void.

If you have been betrayed or wounded by someone you brought too close, please forgive them. They really were a blessing. You will only be better when you cease to be bitter!

He wants you to offer hope to those being crushed and struggling to understand.

Have you ever been guilty of having a condescending attitude about another person's weakness? How can we dare to think we can access the soul-cleansing blood that delivers us from the cesspool of our secret sins, and then look down on another member of Christ's Body in disdain?

Can the wounded heal the hurting?