The phrase "affection and compassion" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing feelings of love, care, or empathy towards others.
Example: "Her actions were driven by deep affection and compassion for those in need."
Alternatives: "love and empathy" or "care and kindness".
Is he dead?" Informed that Mr. Jackson was under investigation for an unspecified crime, Ms. Birrell said, "Many people here in the valley have a great affection and compassion for the myth of Michael Jackson".
In broken English he expressed his belief in "human value" and "human affection," stating that affection and compassion can reach beyond issues of race, economic status, or any other dividers.
She celebrates the "feminine affections and compassion" associated with the family and suggests that civil society will fail without them.
It is an imperfect movie — marred, if anything, by its sincere affection and undisciplined compassion — about the imperfect young men who keep returning to a war the rest of us would prefer not to think about.
It was important for theologians to be able to distinguish between those troubling movements of the soul appetites, lusts, desires, passions that the good Christian should avoid, and those more virtuous and Godly affections of love and compassion to which they might rightly aspire.
A candidate's job is to woo the electorate, to win the people's affection with charm, familiarity and compassion.
So of course love, understanding, acceptance, affection, support, compassion, and most of all patience, are all needed in dealing with friends who are in varying degrees of phases of a mental illness.
You know, a relationship filled with compassion, affection, and acceptance.
Throughout the visit, he showed compassion, affection and interest, which represent core values to help children around the world to thrive.
Under this category, Reid places the so-called benevolent affections, such as the affection felt between kin, gratitude to benefactors, pity and compassion, friendship, public spirit, and the like (see EAP III.iii.iv).iv
"In this marvellous piece, with Helen Mirren once again giving a magnificent performance as the Queen, he penetrates at least some of her mystery, with compassion, grace, affection and humour".
