Quotes about Empathy
You must not curse the deaf or place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.
— Leviticus 19:14
Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
— Leviticus 19:18
You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
— Leviticus 19:34
Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.
— Leviticus 25:35
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
— Deuteronomy 10:18
So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
— Deuteronomy 10:19
If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.
— Deuteronomy 15:7
Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him whatever he needs.
— Deuteronomy 15:8
For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.
— Deuteronomy 15:11
And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed.
— Deuteronomy 15:13
And you shall do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.
— Deuteronomy 22:3
If you see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up.
— Deuteronomy 22:4