Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
There are secret ties, there are sympathies, by the sweet relationship of which souls that are well matched attach themselves to each other, and are affected by I know not what, which cannot be explained
They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.
Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ's love has not yet turned them into the sympathetic persons the gospel should make them.
There's something very beautiful and compelling about someone who has ambition and someone who knows what they want, but it can get a little frustrating at times, so I understand that. I have sympathy for that.
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.
Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.
Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction
True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.
The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program. . . is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope.
Long may it remain in this mixed world a question not easy of decision, which is the more beautiful evidence of the Almighty's goodness, the soft white hand formed for the ministrations of sympathy and tenderness, or the rough hard hand which the heart softens, teaches, and guides in a moment.
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.
Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.