Quotes about Empathy

Lord, keep us from speaking of love while hoarding the gifts you have given us. Make us full of discontent as long as there are brothers and sisters living and dying in hunger. Amen.

ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.

Mother Teresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta.

can sing my wife a song, but she really knows I love her when I do the dishes.

Tony Campolo, back at Eastern College: "Jesus never says to the poor, 'Come find the church,' but he says to those of us in the church, 'Go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned,' Jesus in his disguises.

And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.

Mother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta.

My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

I never knew You lived so close to the floor, but every time I am bowed down, crushed by this weight of grief, I feel Your hand on my head, Your breath on my cheek, Your tears on my neck. You never tell me to pull myself together, to stem the flow of many years. You simply stay by my side for as long as it takes, so close to the floor.

As long as I viewed someone as the enemy, I gave that person some power over my life. But as I forgave a person, I too was free.

We all need a place where we can give voice to the worst that torments our souls and still be held.

You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.