Quotes about Sympathy
While He was still speaking, someone arrived from the house of the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” he told Jairus. “Do not bother the Teacher anymore.”
- Luke 8:49
and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them in the loss of their brother.
- John 11:19
When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.
- John 11:33
Jesus wept.
- John 11:35
Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.
- Romans 12:15
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with grief?
- 2 Corinthians 11:29
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.
- Hebrews 4:15
You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, knowing that you yourselves had a better and permanent possession.
- Hebrews 10:34
Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.
- 1 Peter 3:8
You can empathize without sympathizing.
- William Ury
The more deeply we live, the more we feel in sympathy with Augustine, and the less with Pelagius.
- Herman Bavinck
We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.
- Herman Melville