This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.
Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.
Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.
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?
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.
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
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.
Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.