Sentence examples for a compassionate act from inspiring English sources

Moral elevation must involve a similar pattern, which makes some sense: To see a compassionate act, we must witness suffering, and that's stressful.

In this sense, Galgut's account is perhaps a compassionate act: describing for a more permissive time what, for his subject, could not be freely brought into the light.

So as a final task, educators might ask their students to perform a compassionate act and notice how they feel afterwards -- a potentially powerful way to encourage students to make compassion a part of their lives.

His research shows that seeing someone help another person creates a heightened state of well-being that he calls "elevation". Not only do we feel elevation when we watch a compassionate act, but we are then more likely to act with compassion ourselves.

Jesus' healing of the leper was more than an interpersonal compassionate act; it was a symbolic and revolutionary critique of the institutional systems of his day, which like our own, assigned some to oppression, while allowing the unoppressed far too much freedom to do nothing and care less.

It's a kind and compassionate act to not add to their pain.

Last month the British gay-rights activist Peter Tatchell announced that Buju Banton and three other reggae stars (Beenie Man, Capleton and Sizzla) had signed a statement called "The Reggae Compassionate Act," an agreement "not to make statements or perform songs that incite hatred or violence against anyone from any community".

Beenie Man, Sizzla and Capleton, all previously responsible for anti-gay lyrics, have signed the Reggae Compassionate Act, a petition set up by the Stop Murder Music campaign.

All three musicians have suffered loss of revenue, which some reports estimate amounts to as much as £2.5 million, over recent years following high-profile boycott campaigns from organisations such Stop Murder Music and gay rights group OutRage! "The Reggae Compassionate Act is a big breakthrough," said Peter Tatchell, an OutRage! founder who is one of the forces behind the act.

And not only this, but our compassionate act has an impact beyond the receiver, on others that witness it, see, hear or read about it.

After reports that Mr. Banton signed the "reggae compassionate act" in 2007, a pledge to refrain from anti-gay songs and statements, he denied having signed it.