Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
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.
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
Compassion is not a popular virtue.
Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.
When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
Compassion is contempt with a human face.
Why does God endow us with compassion?