Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.
Barack Obama has exhibited sympathy, if not for the terrorists, then certainly for the Islamic supremacists.
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.
Jesus, Thou art all compassion, pure unbounded love Thou art; Visit us with Thy salvation, enter every trembling heart.
No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.
I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.
From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.
We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.
During the course of my presidency, it feels as if a couple times a year I end up having to speak to the country, and to speak to a particular community about a devastating loss, and the grieving that the country feels is real, the sympathy, obviously the prioritizing, comforting the families, all of that's important, but I think a part of the point I wanted to make was that it's not enough just to feel bad.
It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
I really have not so much sympathy. If Tina Turner and Prince's back-up band can perform on stage in them for three hours, you can't tell me they are impossible to walk in. High heels are pleasure with pain. If you can't walk in them, don't wear them.
I do have quite a lot of sympathy for Fodor's picture of concepts as information-free atomic entities which get locked onto their referents causally, and to that extent they needn't involve anything much in the way of learning. But even so it seems perverse to call them 'innate'. Here we see again the oddity of treating 'not learned' as sufficient for innate.
Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us a fine ear for the heart-pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance and opinion.