The phrase "moved by compassion" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to express when someone is influenced to show sympathy or kindness towards someone or something in need. For example, "After learning the story of the homeless child, the mayor was moved by compassion to provide her with a place to stay."
He's passionate about his science but is not moved by compassion.
Or that I've given more support to people when moved by compassion to do so.
Germany itself had been moved by compassion and empathy to the plight of the refugees, but there should be a comprehensive EU response to this crisis.
Gaye Hicyilmaz's adolescent Frankie observes and learns, moved by compassion for an individual that leads him to reject the prejudice that surrounds him.
"They were moved by compassion for others to... struggle for social and political justice and were very successful in moving others to their causes," Raboteau says in an interview.
Sara told me the story of her brother Abbas, his birth in London, his marriage and children, and of how – moved by compassion for the suffering of civilians in rebel-held areas of Syria – he had crossed the frontier from Turkey to take medical equipment to Aleppo last year.
They have been moved by humanitarian compassion, not religious politics.
Just as she had been moved by his compassion, he, in turn, was moved by hers.
Eventually, a small, dedicated group of devotees gathered, moved by her compassion.
She is a universalist, moved by a compassion that manages at once to be specific to South Africa while taking in the vulnerable – women, children, the elderly, all those with limited ability – everywhere.
In particular, a study by Jonathan Haidt of New York University shows that the more employees look up to their leaders and are moved by their compassion or kindness (a state he terms elevation), the more loyal they become to him or her.
