Sentence examples for feeling compassion from inspiring English sources

I'm sure many feel the same conflict that I do – on the one hand feeling compassion for a friend who has taken the wrong path, and on the other distress that someone who had seemed so normal would commit such an act.

In feeling compassion Jesus was moved to remove the suffering of others.

Burke, the conferee says, was torn between wanting to take a hard line and feeling compassion for Williams.

A local pharmacist, feeling compassion for Ms. Gabot's situation, agreed to reduce the cost of the medications.

There is something monstrous about the urgent, exorbitant need that overrode any consideration of human feeling, compassion or basic decency.

"He didn't show our kids any mercy, so I have a hard time feeling compassion for him," Mr. Malicote said.

LGBT people have feelings, compassion, and love as well.

"The Government of Japan considers such an accident extremely regrettable and also expresses its heartfelt sympathy to the victims, while feeling strong compassion for them," the statement said.

"In a winter-hammered landscape," he writes, "the light creates a feeling of compassion... it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us".

He wrote about feeling momentary compassion for the innocent people "under the ruins" but said that he was "overwhelmed" by anger toward the United States and that the attacks should force American officials to rethink their policies.

According to Mencius, the sprout (duan; also meaning "beginning") of ren is a spontaneous feeling of compassion and commiseration within the human heart-and-mind (xin), the locus of both cognitive and affective functions.