The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.
It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.
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.
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.
Compassion is a two way street.
This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Compassion is contempt with a human face.