As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.
Why does God endow us with compassion?
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.
Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.
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.
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.
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