Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
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 is the basis of morality.
This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.
When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
Compassion is contempt with a human face.