We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
I think compassion is an important quality in people in general.
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.
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.
Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.
Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.
We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.
As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.
Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.
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.