Sentence examples for compassionate acts from inspiring English sources

Scout and her brother, Jem, learn the principles of racial justice and open-mindedness from their father, whose just and compassionate acts include an unpopular defense of a black man falsely accused of raping a white girl.

Moreover, a compassionate person has actually performed compassionate acts; he or she is not simply disposed to do so.

Instead, work to say kind and gentle things to yourself and to engage in compassionate acts of self-care.

But he also saves a teenager from suicide and helps cure children's cancer two compassionate acts that hold no benefit for Superman.

Whether or not you've committed a lot of compassionate acts in your life, chances are you've been on the receiving end at least once or twice.

Your children, particularly when they're young, will most notice the larger compassionate acts you engage in, for example, volunteering your time for a worthy cause or traveling a long distance to support a family member in need.

This compassionate act points us to one of the novel's main themes: pity, its operation, and its lack.

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.

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.

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".

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.