Famous Quotes

"I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls."

Lionel Blue on Sympathy

More quotes about Sympathy

• "That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind."

  William Wordsworth on Sympathy

• "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength."

  Corrie Ten Boom on Sympathy

• "What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."

  Saint Augustine on Sympathy

• "When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."

  Khalil Gibran on Sympathy

• "When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."

  William Shakespeare on Sympathy

More quotes by Lionel Blue

• "My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely."

• "To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies."

• "I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen."

• "I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs."

• "Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life."