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[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)Karen Armstrong
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If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)Karen Armstrong
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Humiliate your enemy is dangerous.Karen Armstrong
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Compassion dervies from the Latin patiri and the Greek pathein, meaning "to suffer, undergo or experience." So "compassion" means "to endure [something] with another person, " to put ourselves in somebody else's shoes, to feel her pain as though it were our own, and to enter generously into his point of view. That is why our hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else. Compassion can be defined, therefore, as an attitude of principled, consistent altruism.Karen Armstrong
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Saint Augustine … insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to preach hatred and was not conducive to love must be interpreted allegorically and made to speak of charity.Karen Armstrong