"God is compassion, loving kindness. All we’re asked to do is to be in the world who God is. Certainly compassion was the wallpaper of Jesus’ soul, the contour of his heart, it was who he was. I heard someone say once, “Just assume the answer to every question is compassion.” "Fr. Gregory Boyle from the book Tattoos on the Heart ( inspiring book of a priest’s work among the gangs of LA)
Compassion is known as the greatest of virtues by philosophers and world religions. And I can see why. Most of the time, it is so VERY hard to do.
According to wiki, "Compassion is a virtue — one in which the emotional capacities of empathy and sympathy (for the suffering of others) are regarded as a part of love itself, and a cornerstone of greater social interconnection and humanism — foundational to the highest principles in philosophy, society, and personhood."
