COMPASSION
It cannot but grieve gracious souls to see what pains men take to go to hell. They
know the evil of sin experimentally, and they are alarmed to see others flying like
moths into its blaze. ME615
The thought that we may ourselves be one day under the window should make us
careful when we are throwing out dirty water. With what measure we mete it shall
be measured to us again, and therefore let us look well to our dealings with the
unfortunate. Nothing makes me more sick of human nature than to see the way in
which men treat others when they fall down the ladder of fortune. PT98
There are none so tender as those who have been skinned themselves. 222.461
An escape from suffering would be an escape from the power to sympathise, and that
were to be deprecated beyond all things. 1090.22
Look at sinful men as mad, and you will pity them and bear with them. 1407.198
I do not know how else we could care for some poor creatures, if it were not that Jesus
teaches us to despise none and despair of none. 1411.249
A Jesus who never wept could never wipe away my tears. 2091.346
Many a man can be touched by the sorrow of another, but he is not touched with that
sorrow. He has feeling, but not fellow-feeling. 2148.318
When a king (David) has lost his throne, when a father has his own child in rebellion
against him, one says, “Whatever may have been his faults, this is not the time to
mention them.” When the poor heart is bleeding and the man is already suffering the
very extremity of misery, who would wish to add a single ounce to the crushing
weight that he has to carry? 3164.471