Quote

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.

This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'