The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.
I shall always be a priest of love.
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.
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.
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
I think compassion is an important quality in people in general.
This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to experience, in addition to their trust, also their generosity in pardoning his weaknesses.
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
The church must always show compassion, always.