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As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.
Sep 17, 2025
Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.
Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I'll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
Grief is the price we pay for love.
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
When you are sorrowful, look again.
Tears are the silent language of grief.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
The only cure for grief is action.
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