Quotes about Empathy
Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
— Deuteronomy 24:17
Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.
— Deuteronomy 24:22
And she said, “He gave me these six measures of barley, for he said, ‘Do not go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”
— Ruth 3:17
She fell at his feet and said, “My lord, may the blame be on me alone, but please let your servant speak to you; hear the words of your servant.
— 1 Samuel 25:24
Now his men found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave the man water to drink and food to eat—
— 1 Samuel 30:11
but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter to him.
— 2 Samuel 12:3
Now a traveler came to the rich man, who refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for his guest.”
— 2 Samuel 12:4
The elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.
— 2 Samuel 12:17
“What is this you have done?” his servants asked. “While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate.”
— 2 Samuel 12:21
“No,” she replied, “sending me away is worse than this great wrong you have already done to me!” But he refused to listen to her.
— 2 Samuel 13:16
Then the king stood up, tore his clothes, and lay down on the ground; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.
— 2 Samuel 13:31
“What troubles you?” the king asked her. “Indeed,” she said, “I am a widow, for my husband is dead.
— 2 Samuel 14:5