Compassion

[Jesus] heart overflowed with compassion.—Luke 7:13

Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit.
—Thich Nhat Hanh

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.
—Thomas Browne, Sr.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
—Thomas Merton

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.
—Frederick Buechner

So he returned home to his father. And while he was still a long distance away, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.
—from The Parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32)