Allison Bailey

“Character concerns reveal what we value most.”
― Brad Hambrick, Mobilizing Church-Based Counseling: Models for Sustainable Church-Based Care

“But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of your own, with some loathsome sexual perversion--nagged day in and day out by an inferiority complex that makes you snap at your best friends--do not despair. He knows all about it. You are one of the poor whom He blessed. He knows what a wretched machine you are trying to drive. Keep on. Do what you can. One day He will fling it on the scrap-heap and give you a new one. And then you may astonish us all - not least yourself: for you have learned your driving in a hard school.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Sympathy willingly joins with sufferers in their pain. Empathy makes their suffering our own in a more universal and totalizing way.”
― Joe Rigney, The Sin of Empathy: Compassion and Its Counterfeits

“But the emotional boundaries and separation implied in sympathy and compassion can serve another purpose. They allow the comforter to maintain the kind of stability and sober-mindedness necessary to actually help the sufferer.”
― Joe Rigney, The Sin of Empathy: Compassion and Its Counterfeits