Quotes about Sympathy

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Two in distressmake sorrow less.

You Too? I thought I was the only one.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

Where are the unwise, who are not only impatient but plot revenge day and night? But why? Because they do not see how great is the damage of those who have not kept the law of the Lord, therefore they have no sympathy with them but also themselves depart from the law of God through anger and impatience.

Yes, with a feeling of pity and sympathy the godless are to be destroyed or struck down by us as we remember that we are the instrument of God and are ourselves perhaps to be cast as a whip into the fire after we have blasted the evildoers.

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.

I do not want a friend Who smiles when I smile Who weeps when I weep For my shadow in the pool Can do better than that.

The shortest distance between two hearts is compassion.

What you seek for others you find for yourself.

As Schaeffer once wrote, there is nothing uglier than theological orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.