Quotes About Sympathy

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to encourage in others.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L

Purity is not innocence, it is much more. Purity is the outcome of sustained spiritual sympathy with God. We have to grow in purity.

Beware of counterfeiting the love of God by working along the line of natural human sympathy, because that will end in blaspheming the love of God.

the greatest dissipater of our relationship to God is personal sympathy and personal prejudice.

It is not likely that sin will interfere with our intercessory relationship with God, but sympathy will. It is sympathy with ourselves or with others that makes us say, "I will not allow that thing to happen." And instantly we are out of that vital connection with God.

Never tolerate, because of sympathy for yourself or for others, any practice that is not in keeping with a holy God. Holiness means absolute purity of your walk before God, the words coming from your mouth, and every thought in your mind—placing every detail of your life under the scrutiny of God Himself. Holiness is not simply what God gives me, but what God has given me that is being exhibited in my life.

the New Testament view is that He took our sin on Himself not because of sympathy, but because of His identification with us.

If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way— not in a human way that ignores God.

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda

Soon after that he drank some soda-water, and went to bed: I did so too, and, I shame to confess, slept soundly, unhaunted by so much as a dream of the poor patient Bronze, whom we had left in the chilly bleak dawn, alone with his hunger and sorrow. We hear a very great chatter of "sympathy" in this world: is there aught of it, I wonder, that is anything beyond fellow-feeling?

which might have touched into sympathy, even the coldest nature. But (I do not think one can blame my Lady Molyneux; if she was born without feelings, perhaps she was hardly more responsible for the non-possession of them, than the idiot for the total absence of brain) her mother was not even silenced.

I need not say that in this place I had never ceased to passionately regret my dear old master in the noble pine woods of the Peak. Indeed, I had sometimes lamented for him aloud in a grief that brought on me angry words and even angry strokes; so little sympathy have men or women ever with our woes, although for theirs we feel so keenly and fret ourselves so ceaselessly. Twenty times at least had I endeavored to run away, with the full intent of trying to find my road back alone

To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

His sadness resonated with me and we were drawn to one another.

Mrs. Cornwell smiled, and Terri knew and hated that smile. It was the same one her own mother used when she thought Terri was showing some interest in a member of the opposite sex. A smug, I-told-you-so, isn't-that-sweet smile. Terri turned to Brian and felt a confusing surge of sympathy for the kid plus a determination not to show the slightest interest in him. Neither feeling gave her any idea what to say to him, however.

sometimes we hate something so much that we wind up identifying with it.

It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.

Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.