Quotes about Empathy

the extent to which we love and respect ourselves is the extent to which we will be able to love and respect others.

Regardless of how we might feel about another human being, they are made in God's image and of infinite value and worth.

Lewis Smedes sums up the dangers of superficial forgiveness: "We will not take healing action against unfair pain until we own the pain we want to heal. It is not enough to feel pain. We need to appropriate the pain we feel: Be conscious of it, take it on, and take it as our own … I worry about fast forgivers. They tend to forgive quickly in order to avoid their pain.

Part of that likeness is to feel.

Lord Jesus, help me love well like you.

The degree to which you recognize and engage your own shadow is the degree to which you can free others to face theirs.

While I was disciplined in spiritual practices, the people closest to me (starting with my wife, Geri) did not experience me as more loving with each passing year.

This voice told him the goal of ministry was to recognize the Lord's voice, his face, and his touch in every person he met.

loving well is the essence of true spirituality.

I may not agree with you or you with me. Yet I can remain in relationship with you. I don't have to detach from you, reject you, avoid you, or criticize you to validate myself. I can be myself apart from you.

Few of us know the experience of being loved for being just who we are.

No one cares how much we know unless they also know how much we care.