[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)

Humiliate your enemy is dangerous.

Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of attaining enlightenment.

Then, as now, there would always be people who preferred the option of devoting their religious energies to sacred space over the more difficult duty of compassion.

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

When you feel compassion, you dethrone yourself from the centre of the world.

The early doctrines of the church, even doctrines like Trinity and Incarnation were originally also calls for action, calls for selflessness, calls for compassion, and unless you live that out compassionately, selflessly, you didn't understand what the doctrine was saying.

...there is something wrong with any spirituality that does not inspire selfless concern for others