The phrase "attributes of compassion" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the qualities or characteristics that define compassion.
Example: "The attributes of compassion include empathy, kindness, and a willingness to help others in need."
Alternatives: "qualities of compassion" or "characteristics of compassion."
It appears this scheme is to act as a screening device to exclude those who do not demonstrate attributes of compassion from places on courses that lead to registration as a nurse.
Whether it's the parable of the good Samaritan in Christianity, Judaism's "13 attributes of compassion" or the Buddha's statement that "loving kindness and compassion is all of our practice," empathy with the suffering of others is seen as a special virtue that has the power to change the world.
These animals seem to be displaying distinctively human attributes of compassion, kindness and well, humanity.
Maybe the corporations legally defined as human beings, but without the pesky occasional human attributes of conscience and compassion maybe when handed the only keys to the electoral machine, they will simply not re-design America in their own corporate image.
Recent graduates ranked the attributes of integrity, friendliness and compassion higher than final year students.
She also has a highly-developed sense of compassion – a traditionally female attribute – as well as a less gender-conventional blood-lust when faced with a baddie.
Unsworth directs our sympathy toward workers and slaves, "whose lives were all toil," and attributes the social ills arising from capitalism to a failure of compassion on the part of those with money and property.
We must stop obsessing about physical characteristics and consider all those other traits that we inherit -- wonderful attributes like compassion, empathy, intelligence, sense of humor, wit, charm, tenacity, sincerity and charisma.
A universal attribute of humanity is compassion.
Christian doctrine does teach that God is fearsome and wonderful, but other attributes of God are much more to the fore in the emotion of compassion: God's fatherly nurturing tenderness and forgiveness, his long-suffering love.
They attributed Sodom's problems with God to many different causes, including idolatry, threats toward strangers and general lack of compassion for the downtrodden.
