Quotes about Empathy

Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.

Clarence Jordan, co-founder of Koinonia Farm, wrote, "The Good News of the resurrection is not that we shall die and go home with him, but that he is risen and comes home with us, bringing all his hungry, naked, thirsty, sick, prisoner brothers with him.

Patting mother Theresa on the back, someone said to her: 'i wouldn't do what you do for a million dollars.' She said with a grin: 'me neither.

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.

Beyond miracles, what has lasting significance is love. It wasn't that Jesus healed a leper, but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers.

Something mystical can happen in the course of acting together that transcends words and ideologies—people who do not agree on ideas can create common ground in the act of loving.

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

Teresa of Avila, a sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, wrote, "Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Christ's compassion is to look out to the world; yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good; yours are the hands with which God is to bless people now.

When our theology gets in the way of loving our neighbors, it's time to rethink our theology.