Quotes about Empathy

The smart kid teases the dumb kid. The athlete makes fun of the kid with two left feet. Something is so wrong inside us that we can't even handle blessing properly.

Self-righteousness means you don't see yourself or the other person with accuracy. It means you see his or her speck as a log and your log as a speck. So you are condemning of him or her and excusing of yourself. You treat the other person with judgment while you respond to yourself with patience.

When you remember mercy, you are humble, thankful, and tender.

you and I need to be open and approachable in the midst of our discouragement. We'll never get the help we need if we first demand that people sign on to our view of things before we are willing to open up to them and listen to what they have to say to us.

Love calls you to be silent when you want to speak, and to speak when you would like to be silent.

So much of our disappointment in relationships is not because we have an unrealistic view of others, but because we have a distorted view of ourselves.

You deal with others with grace when you walk around with the humble realization of how deep your need for grace was and continues to be.

When you think you're righteous, you expect others to be righteous as well, so you become demanding, judgmental, and constantly disappointed.

The things you do and say always tell you more about yourself than whoever you're speaking or responding to

For the believer, harsh, critical, impatient, and irritated responses to others are always connected to forgetting or denying who we are and what we have been given in Jesus.

Humility is the soil in which mercy for others grows.

You are most loving, patient, kind, and gracious when you are aware that there is no truth that you could give to another that you don't desperately need yourself.